Meson is an open source build system designed to be both extremely fast and as user friendly as possible.
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This section is not strictly required when LFS does not use systemd. On the other hand, Meson, along with Ninja, makes a powerful build system combination, which will probably be used more and more often. It is required for several packages in the BLFS book.
Compile Meson with the following command:
pip3 wheel -w dist --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD
The test suite requires some packages outside the scope of LFS.
Install the package:
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
The meaning of the install parameters:
-w
dist
Puts the created wheels into the dist directory.
--find-links
dist
Installs wheels from the dist
directory.