source: chapter06/meson.xml@ d47b15b

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<sect1 id="ch-system-meson" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="meson.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>meson</productname>
    <productnumber>&meson-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&meson-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Meson-&meson-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson">
    <primary sortas="a-Meson">Meson</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast,
    and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&meson-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&meson-ch6-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Meson</title>

    <para>Make a fix from upstream:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '309 s/os.getcwd/-C, &amp;/' mesonbuild/minstall.py</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install --root=dest
cp -rv dest/* /</userinput></screen>
<!--
    <para>At last, move Meson man pages to correct location:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share/man/man1/*.1 \
      /usr/share/man/man1
rm -r /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share</userinput></screen>
-->

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
      
      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--root=dest</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>By default <command>python3 setup.py install</command>
          installs various files (such as man pages) into Python Eggs.
          With a specified root location, <command>setup.py</command> installs
          these files into a standard hierarchy.  Then we can just copy
          the hierarchy so the files will be in the standard location.
        </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Meson</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>meson, mesonconf, mesonintrospect, mesontest, and wraptool</seg>
                <seg>/usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="meson">
                <term><command>meson</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A high productivity build system</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson meson">
            <primary sortas="b-meson">meson</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mesonconf">
                <term><command>mesonconf</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A tool to configure Meson builds</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson mesonconf">
            <primary sortas="b-mesonconf">mesonconf</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mesonintrospect">
                <term><command>mesonintrospect</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A tool to extract information about a Meson build</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson mesonintrospect">
            <primary sortas="b-mesonintrospect">mesonintrospect</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mesontest">
                <term><command>mesontest</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Test tool for the Meson build system</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson mesontest">
            <primary sortas="b-mesontest">mesontest</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="wraptool">
                <term><command>wraptool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Source dependency downloader</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson wraptool">
            <primary sortas="b-wraptool">wraptool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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