8.59. Meson-1.12.0

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# 8.59 Meson-1.12.0

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

Approximate build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Required disk space: 50 MB

## 8.59.1 Installation of Meson

Compile Meson with the following command:

    pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --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.

## 8.59.2 Contents of Meson

Installed programs: meson
Installed directory: /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/meson-1.12.0.dist-info and /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mesonbuild

### Short Descriptions

meson | A high productivity build system

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