source: chapter08/meson.xml@ 26e3001

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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 as user friendly as possible.</para>

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

    <tip revision="sysv">
      <para>This section is not strictly required for LFS if not using
      systemd. On the other hand, meson/ninja is a powerful build system,
      which is expected to be used more and more often. It is required for
      several packages in <ulink url="&blfs-book;">the BLFS
      book</ulink>.</para>
    </tip>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Meson</title>
<!--
    <para>First, apply a patch that fixes an issue identified upstream:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&meson-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>

    <para>The test suite requires some packages out of the scope of LFS.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist meson
install -vDm644 data/shell-completions/bash/meson /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/meson
install -vDm644 data/shell-completions/zsh/_meson /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_meson</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-w dist</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>Put the created wheels into the
           <filename class='directory'>dist</filename> directory.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--find-links dist</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>Install wheels from the
           <filename class='directory'>dist</filename> directory.</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</seg>
        <seg>
           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;.dist-info and
           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/mesonbuild
        </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>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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