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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>

<sect1 id="ch-system-meson" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="meson.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>meson</productname>
    <productnumber>&meson-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&meson-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Meson-&meson-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson">
    <primary sortas="a-Meson">Meson</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Meson is an open source build system designed to be both extremely fast
    and as user friendly as possible.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&meson-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&meson-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Meson</title>
<!--
    <para>First, apply a patch that fixes an issue identified upstream:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&meson-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>

    <para>The test suite requires some packages outside the scope of LFS.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist meson
install -vDm644 data/shell-completions/bash/meson /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/meson
install -vDm644 data/shell-completions/zsh/_meson /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_meson</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-w dist</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>Puts the created wheels into the
           <filename class='directory'>dist</filename> directory.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--find-links dist</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
           <para>Installs wheels from the
           <filename class='directory'>dist</filename> directory.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Meson</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>meson</seg>
        <seg>
           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;.dist-info and
           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/mesonbuild
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="meson">
        <term><command>meson</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A high productivity build system</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson meson">
            <primary sortas="b-meson">meson</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>