From b0aabe01adf7a1d17e885fcce9b6a7b1d4cf2700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:22:37 +0000
Subject: Add Meson-0.42.1. Add Ninja-1.8.2. Add Python-3.6.2. Add
 libffi-3.2.1. Update to eudev-3.2.4.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11303 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 prologue/why.xml | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

(limited to 'prologue')

diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml
index 761cf138d..b85281842 100644
--- a/prologue/why.xml
+++ b/prologue/why.xml
@@ -326,6 +326,19 @@
         </para>
       </listitem>
 
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Libffi</para>
+
+        <para>This package implements a portable, high level programming
+        interface to various calling conventions.  Some programs may not know
+        at the time of compilation what arguments are to be passed to a
+        function. For instance, an interpreter may be told at run-time about
+        the number and types of arguments used to call a given function. Libffi
+        can be used in such programs to provide a bridge from the interpreter
+        program to compiled code.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+
       <listitem>
         <para>Libpipeline</para>
 
@@ -380,6 +393,16 @@
         Linux man pages.</para>
       </listitem>
 
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Meson</para>
+
+        <para>This package provides a software tool for automating the building
+        of software. The main goal for Meson is to minimize the amount of time
+        that software developers need to spend configuring their build
+        system.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+
       <listitem>
         <para>MPC</para>
 
@@ -394,6 +417,15 @@
         arithmetic.  It is required by Gcc.</para>
       </listitem>
 
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Ninja</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains a small build system with a focus on speed.
+        It is designed to have its input files generated by a higher-level build
+        system, and to run builds as fast as possible.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+
       <listitem>
         <para>Ncurses</para>
 
@@ -443,6 +475,14 @@
         administration.</para>
       </listitem>
 
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Python 3</para>
+
+        <para>This package provides an interpreted language that has a design
+        philosophy that emphasizes code readability.</para>
+
+      </listitem>
+
       <listitem>
         <para>Readline</para>
 
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