[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] prepare build infrastructure to pick up installed meson tool

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Norbert

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:19:25 +0200
Norbert Lange <nolange79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Automatically check for an available meson tool,
> and use it as long as the version is fitting.
> 
> Using a system provided meson is not an official supported
> option, hence this is currently disabled.
> use of the system provided meson can be enforced with:
> 
>    make ... BR2_MESON_VERSION_MIN=0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Norbert Lange <nolange79 at gmail.com>

Thanks for this, however I don't think we will ever merge this until a
system-provided meson can effectively be used.

What about working on merging
0001-Only-fix-RPATH-if-install_rpath-is-not-empty.patch to upstream
Meson, in this form or another form ? This would definitely pave the
way to using the system-provided Meson.

Another (more useful ?) thing to look at: is it possible to use the
system-provided Python for Meson and Ninja, when python3 is provided by
the system ? I think Meson and Ninja by themselves are not long at all
to build, and it would be a much more useful direction for this patch
series.

Thanks!

Thomas
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