BOOK/chapter08/meson.xml

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   7
   8 <sect1 id="ch-system-meson" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="meson.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>meson</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&meson-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&meson-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Meson-&meson-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Meson">Meson</primary>
  21   </indexterm>
  22
  23   <sect2 role="package">
  24     <title/>
  25
  26     <para>Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast
  27     and as user friendly as possible.</para>
  28
  29     <segmentedlist>
  30       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  31       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  32       <seglistitem>
  33         <seg>&meson-fin-sbu;</seg>
  34         <seg>&meson-fin-du;</seg>
  35       </seglistitem>
  36     </segmentedlist>
  37
  38     <tip revision="sysv">
  39       <para>This section is not strictly required for LFS if not using
  40       systemd. On the other hand, meson/ninja is a powerful build system,
  41       which is expected to be used more and more often. It is required for
  42       several packages in <ulink url="&blfs-book;">the BLFS
  43       book</ulink>.</para>
  44     </tip>
  45
  46   </sect2>
  47
  48   <sect2 role="installation">
  49     <title>Installation of Meson</title>
  50
  51 <!-- Applied in 0.56.2
  52     <para>First, apply a patch that fixes an issue with pkgconfig files
  53     for static libraries:</para>
  54
  55 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&meson-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
  56 -->
  57     <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>
  58
  59 <screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>
  60
  61     <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
  62
  63     <para>Install the package:</para>
  64
  65 <screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install --root=dest
  66 cp -rv dest/* /</userinput></screen>
  67
  68     <variablelist>
  69       <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
  70
  71       <varlistentry>
  72         <term><parameter>--root=dest</parameter></term>
  73         <listitem>
  74           <para>By default <command>python3 setup.py install</command>
  75           installs various files (such as man pages) into Python Eggs.
  76           With a specified root location, <command>setup.py</command> installs
  77           these files into a standard hierarchy.  Then the hierarchy
  78           can just be copied to the standard location.
  79         </para>
  80         </listitem>
  81       </varlistentry>
  82
  83     </variablelist>
  84   </sect2>
  85
  86   <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
  87     <title>Contents of Meson</title>
  88
  89     <segmentedlist>
  90       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  91       <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
  92
  93       <seglistitem>
  94         <seg>meson</seg>
  95         <seg>/usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg-info and /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/mesonbuild</seg>
  96       </seglistitem>
  97     </segmentedlist>
  98
  99     <variablelist>
 100       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
 101       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 102       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 103
 104       <varlistentry id="meson">
 105                 <term><command>meson</command></term>
 106         <listitem>
 107           <para>A high productivity build system</para>
 108           <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson meson">
 109             <primary sortas="b-meson">meson</primary>
 110           </indexterm>
 111         </listitem>
 112       </varlistentry>
 113
 114     </variablelist>
 115
 116   </sect2>
 117
 118 </sect1>
 119