Changeset 675606b for chapter08/meson.xml

Timestamp:

06/16/2020 11:56:28 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

9a05e45

Parents:

560065f (diff), 1cd5961 (diff)
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Message:

Split Chapter 5 into three separate chapters.
Implement a new method of cross-building the LFS tool chain
and other tools to simplify the method of isolating the
new system from the original host. This will be the start of
LFS-10.0.

Move old trunk/BOOK to branches/old-trunk.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11946 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter08/meson.xml (moved) (moved from chapter06/meson.xml ) (4 diffs)

chapter08/meson.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
     <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>
+    <para>Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast
+    and as user friendly as possible.</para>
 
     <segmentedlist>
@@ -31 +31 @@
       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>&meson-ch6-sbu;</seg>
-        <seg>&meson-ch6-du;</seg>
+        <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>
@@ -40 +48 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Meson</title>
-<!--
-    <para>Apply a fix from upstream to fix a regression:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "s@isfile(a)@&amp; and not a.startswith('/dev')@" mesonbuild/interpreter.py</userinput></screen>
--->
     <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>
 
@@ -65 +69 @@
           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.
+          these files into a standard hierarchy.  Then the hierarchy
+          can just be copied to the standard location.
         </para>
         </listitem>