chapter06/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, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.</para>
  28
  29     <segmentedlist>
  30       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  31       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  32       <seglistitem>
  33         <seg>&meson-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  34         <seg>&meson-ch6-du;</seg>
  35       </seglistitem>
  36     </segmentedlist>
  37
  38   </sect2>
  39
  40   <sect2 role="installation">
  41     <title>Installation of Meson</title>
  42
  43     <para>Make a fix from upstream:</para>
  44
  45 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '309 s/os.getcwd/-C, &amp;/' mesonbuild/minstall.py</userinput></screen>
  46
  47     <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>
  48
  49 <screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>
  50
  51     <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
  52
  53     <para>Install the package:</para>
  54
  55 <screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install --root=dest
  56 cp -rv dest/* /</userinput></screen>
  57 <!--
  58     <para>At last, move Meson man pages to correct location:</para>
  59
  60 <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share/man/man1/*.1 \
  61       /usr/share/man/man1
  62 rm -r /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share</userinput></screen>
  63 -->
  64
  65     <variablelist>
  66       <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
  67
  68       <varlistentry>
  69         <term><parameter>--root=dest</parameter></term>
  70         <listitem>
  71           <para>By default <command>python3 setup.py install</command>
  72           installs various files (such as man pages) into Python Eggs.
  73           With a specified root location, <command>setup.py</command> installs
  74           these files into a standard hierarchy.  Then we can just copy
  75           the hierarchy so the files will be in the standard location.
  76         </para>
  77         </listitem>
  78       </varlistentry>
  79
  80     </variablelist>
  81   </sect2>
  82
  83   <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
  84     <title>Contents of Meson</title>
  85
  86     <segmentedlist>
  87       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  88       <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
  89
  90       <seglistitem>
  91         <seg>meson, mesonconf, mesonintrospect, mesontest, and wraptool</seg>
  92                 <seg>/usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg</seg>
  93       </seglistitem>
  94     </segmentedlist>
  95
  96     <variablelist>
  97       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  98       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  99       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 100
 101       <varlistentry id="meson">
 102                 <term><command>meson</command></term>
 103         <listitem>
 104           <para>A high productivity build system</para>
 105           <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson meson">
 106             <primary sortas="b-meson">meson</primary>
 107           </indexterm>
 108         </listitem>
 109       </varlistentry>
 110
 111       <varlistentry id="mesonconf">
 112                 <term><command>mesonconf</command></term>
 113         <listitem>
 114           <para>A tool to configure Meson builds</para>
 115           <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson mesonconf">
 116             <primary sortas="b-mesonconf">mesonconf</primary>
 117           </indexterm>
 118         </listitem>
 119       </varlistentry>
 120
 121       <varlistentry id="mesonintrospect">
 122                 <term><command>mesonintrospect</command></term>
 123         <listitem>
 124           <para>A tool to extract information about a Meson build</para>
 125           <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson mesonintrospect">
 126             <primary sortas="b-mesonintrospect">mesonintrospect</primary>
 127           </indexterm>
 128         </listitem>
 129       </varlistentry>
 130
 131       <varlistentry id="mesontest">
 132                 <term><command>mesontest</command></term>
 133         <listitem>
 134           <para>Test tool for the Meson build system</para>
 135           <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson mesontest">
 136             <primary sortas="b-mesontest">mesontest</primary>
 137           </indexterm>
 138         </listitem>
 139       </varlistentry>
 140
 141       <varlistentry id="wraptool">
 142                 <term><command>wraptool</command></term>
 143         <listitem>
 144           <para>Source dependency downloader</para>
 145           <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson wraptool">
 146             <primary sortas="b-wraptool">wraptool</primary>
 147           </indexterm>
 148         </listitem>
 149       </varlistentry>
 150     </variablelist>
 151
 152   </sect2>
 153
 154 </sect1>
 155