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8 <sect1 id="ch-system-meson" role="wrap">
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12 <productname>meson</productname>
13 <productnumber>&meson-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&meson-url;</address>
17 <title>Meson-&meson-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson">
20 <primary sortas="a-Meson">Meson</primary>
23 <sect2 role="package">
26 <para>Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast
27 and as user friendly as possible.</para>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
33 <seg>&meson-fin-sbu;</seg>
34 <seg>&meson-fin-du;</seg>
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
48 <sect2 role="installation">
49 <title>Installation of Meson</title>
51 <!-- Applied in 0.56.2
52 <para>First, apply a patch that fixes an issue with pkgconfig files
53 for static libraries:</para>
55 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&meson-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
57 <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>
59 <screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>
61 <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
63 <para>Install the package:</para>
65 <screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install --root=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>
71 <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
74 <term><parameter>--root=dest</parameter></term>
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.
88 <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
89 <title>Contents of Meson</title>
92 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
93 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
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>
102 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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106 <varlistentry id="meson">
107 <term><command>meson</command></term>
109 <para>A high productivity build system</para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson meson">
111 <primary sortas="b-meson">meson</primary>