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/* /
  67 install -vDm644 data/shell-completions/bash/meson /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/meson
  68 install -vDm644 data/shell-completions/zsh/_meson /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_meson</userinput></screen>
  69
  70     <variablelist>
  71       <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
  72
  73       <varlistentry>
  74         <term><parameter>--root=dest</parameter></term>
  75         <listitem>
  76           <para>By default <command>python3 setup.py install</command>
  77           installs various files (such as man pages) into Python Eggs.
  78           With a specified root location, <command>setup.py</command> installs
  79           these files into a standard hierarchy.  Then the hierarchy
  80           can just be copied to the standard location.
  81         </para>
  82         </listitem>
  83       </varlistentry>
  84
  85     </variablelist>
  86   </sect2>
  87
  88   <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
  89     <title>Contents of Meson</title>
  90
  91     <segmentedlist>
  92       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  93       <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
  94
  95       <seglistitem>
  96         <seg>meson</seg>
  97         <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>
  98       </seglistitem>
  99     </segmentedlist>
 100
 101     <variablelist>
 102       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
 103       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 104       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 105
 106       <varlistentry id="meson">
 107                 <term><command>meson</command></term>
 108         <listitem>
 109           <para>A high productivity build system</para>
 110           <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson meson">
 111             <primary sortas="b-meson">meson</primary>
 112           </indexterm>
 113         </listitem>
 114       </varlistentry>
 115
 116     </variablelist>
 117
 118   </sect2>
 119
 120 </sect1>
 121