Changeset d47b15b for chapter06/meson.xml

Timestamp:

07/08/2018 08:23:05 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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Children:

3307b88

Parents:

b8b65b7

Message:

Fix failures in texinfo regression tests.
Update to linux-4.17.5.
Update to meson-0.47.0.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11436 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/meson.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter06/meson.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
     <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>
 
@@ -49 +53 @@
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install</userinput></screen>
-
+<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>
 
@@ -56 +61 @@
       /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">