Support for Meson Builds #1164

distler · 2024-09-30T02:31:16Z

I notice that a number of packages are held back at ancient versions because the upstream switched to meson as a build system.

I ran into this problem when libharfbuzz failed to compile for me (Macos 14.7). It seemed hopeless to try to fix version 2.6.8. So I decided to grab the latest version (10.0.1) and see if I could modify libharfbuzz0-shlibs.info to build using meson.

It involve commenting out a whole bunch of stuff (e.g., no patching required!). The CompileScript (without the docs, because building the docs gave me an error) was

meson build -Ddocs=disabled -Ddoc_tests=false -Dgraphite2=enabled -Dprefix=/opt/sw
meson compile -C build

and the InstallScript was

meson install -C build --no-rebuild --destdir=%d

Obviously, my attempt was rather hacky, but it seems that adding meson support is not so difficult (and would solve a lot of problems with other packages).

The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:

sth0 · 2024-11-02T18:50:16Z

I have a first attempt at a meson package. For some reason the package gives me an error on build.
running build_py creating /opt/sw/src/fink.build/root-meson-py310-1.0.0-2 error: could not create '/opt/sw/src/fink.build/root-meson-py310-1.0.0-2': Permission denied ... Package manager version: 0.45.99.git Distribution version: selfupdate-git Wed Oct 30 18:38:10 2024, 15.0, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main Xcode.app: 16.1 Xcode command-line tools: 16.1.0.0.1.1729049160 Max. Fink build jobs: 10
Not sure why this package complains when all others seem to create that equivalent folder. Just haven't gotten back to this issue. Advice/help appreciated.

meson-py.info.txt

distler · 2024-11-03T06:54:56Z

--- /opt/sw/fink/13.0/local/main/finkinfo/meson-py.info.txt     2024-11-03 01:29:32
+++ /opt/sw/fink/13.0/local/main/finkinfo/meson-py.info 2024-11-03 01:50:16
@@ -23,10 +23,12 @@
 DocFiles: COPYING README.md

 CompileScript: <<
-  %p/bin/python%type_raw[python] setup.py build --build-base=%i
+  #!/bin/sh -ev
+  %p/bin/python%type_raw[python] setup.py build
 <<

 InstallScript: <<
+  #!/bin/sh -ev
   %p/bin/python%type_raw[python] setup.py install --prefix=%p --root=%d
 <<

With that minor change, it compiles and installs just fine.

distler · 2024-11-04T03:27:54Z

Of course, meson 1.0.0 fails miserably to detect the linker on Macos. Installing 1.6.0 (the current version) fixes the problem (and allows to install libharfbuzz 10.0.1).

distler · 2024-11-04T14:27:51Z

Building libharfbuzz-bin requires a newer version of glib2 than Fink currently offers. So here are meson-based builds for glib2-shlibs and for libharfbuzz0-shlibs

libharfbuzz0-shlibs.info.txt
glib2-shlibs.info.txt

dhomeier · 2024-11-07T01:48:00Z

FYI I have updated our existing meson submission in #924 to 1.6.0 as well.

Building libharfbuzz-bin requires a newer version of glib2 than Fink currently offers. So here are meson-based builds for glib2-shlibs and for libharfbuzz0-shlibs

Awesome! I was able to build those with the meson-py310 from above, too, just needed a couple changes to build in maintainer mode:

--- glib2-shlibs.info	2024-11-06 19:58:40
+++ /opt/sw2/fink/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/glib2-shlibs.info	2024-11-07 00:45:19
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 Revision: 1
 BuildDepends: <<
+	fink (>= 0.32),
 	meson,
 	ninja,
 	gettext-bin,
@@ -24,13 +25,13 @@
 	shared-mime-info (>= 1.3-1)
 <<
 Replaces: glib2 (<< 2.12.0-1)
-Source: mirror:gnome:sources/sources/glib/2.82/glib-%v.tar.xz
+Source: mirror:gnome:sources/glib/2.82/glib-%v.tar.xz
 Source-Checksum: SHA256(ab45f5a323048b1659ee0fbda5cecd94b099ab3e4b9abf26ae06aeb3e781fd63)
 SetCFLAGS: -Os
 ConfigureParams: --mandir=%p/share/man --disable-gtk-doc ac_cv_path_GTKDOC_REBASE=true --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-fam --disable-visibility PKG_CONFIG=%p/bin/ppkg-config
 CompileScript: <<
 	#!/bin/sh -ex
-	meson setup _build  -Dprefix=/opt/sw
+	meson setup _build  -Dprefix=%p
 	meson compile -C _build
 <<
 InfoTest: <<
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
 		desktop-file-utils (>= 0.22-1),
 		shared-mime-info (>= 1.3-1)
 	<<
-	TestScript: LANG=C make check || exit 2
+	TestScript: LANG=C meson test -C _build || exit 2
 <<
 InstallScript: <<
 	meson install -C _build --no-rebuild --destdir=%d
@@ -50,11 +51,12 @@
 	perl -p -e 's/-lintl//g' %i/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc > %i/lib/glib-2.0/pkgconfig-strict/glib-2.0.pc
 <<
 Shlibs: <<
-	%p/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib 2201.0.0 %n (>= 2.22.4-1)
-	%p/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib 2201.0.0 %n (>= 2.22.4-1)
-	%p/lib/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib 2201.0.0 %n (>= 2.22.4-1)
-	%p/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 2201.0.0 %n (>= 2.22.4-1)
-	%p/lib/libgthread-2.0.0.dylib 2201.0.0 %n (>= 2.22.4-1)
+	%p/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib 8201.0.0 %n (>= 2.82.2-1)
+	%p/lib/libgirepository-2.0.0.dylib 8201.0.0 %n (>= 2.82.2-1)
+	%p/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib 8201.0.0 %n (>= 2.82.2-1)
+	%p/lib/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib 8201.0.0 %n (>= 2.82.2-1)
+	%p/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 8201.0.0 %n (>= 2.82.2-1)
+	%p/lib/libgthread-2.0.0.dylib 8201.0.0 %n (>= 2.82.2-1)
 <<
 DocFiles: <<
 	docs/reference/AUTHORS:AUTHORS.docs.reference

--- libharfbuzz0-shlibs.info	2024-11-06 23:17:53
+++ /opt/sw2/fink/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/text/libharfbuzz0-shlibs.info	2024-11-07 00:52:21
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Maintainer: Hanspeter Niederstrasser <nieder@users.sourceforge.net>
 Depends: <<
 	freetype219-shlibs,
-	glib2-shlibs,
+	glib2-shlibs (>= 2.30.0),
 	libgettext8-shlibs,
 	libgraphite2-shlibs,
 	libicu72-shlibs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 	ninja,
 	fontconfig2-dev,
 	freetype219,
-	glib2-dev,
+	glib2-dev (>= 2.30.0),
 	libgraphite2-dev,
 	libicu72-dev,
 	ppkg-config
@@ -28,18 +28,23 @@
 Source: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/releases/download/%v/harfbuzz-%v.tar.xz
 Source-Checksum: SHA256(b2cb13bd351904cb9038f907dc0dee0ae07127061242fe3556b2795c4e9748fc)
 CompileScript: <<
-	meson build -Ddocs=disabled -Ddoc_tests=false -Dgraphite2=enabled -Dprefix=/opt/sw
+	meson setup build -Ddocs=disabled -Ddoc_tests=false -Dgraphite2=enabled -Dprefix=%p
 	meson compile -C build
 	ln -s build/utilities build/bin
 <<
+InfoTest: <<
+	TestScript: meson test -C build || exit 2
+<<
 InstallScript: <<
 	meson install -C build --no-rebuild --destdir=%d
 <<
-DocFiles: COPYING
+DocFiles: AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README.md SECURITY.md THANKS
 Shlibs: <<
-	%p/lib/libharfbuzz.0.dylib 20601.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
-	%p/lib/libharfbuzz-icu.0.dylib 20601.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
-	%p/lib/libharfbuzz-subset.0.dylib 20601.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
+	%p/lib/libharfbuzz.0.dylib 61001.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
+	%p/lib/libharfbuzz-cairo.0.dylib 61001.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
+	%p/lib/libharfbuzz-gobject.0.dylib 61001.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
+	%p/lib/libharfbuzz-icu.0.dylib 61001.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
+	%p/lib/libharfbuzz-subset.0.dylib 61001.0.0 %n (>= 10.0.1-1)
 <<
 SplitOff: <<
 	Package: libharfbuzz0-dev
@@ -49,19 +54,16 @@
 		lib/cmake
 		lib/pkgconfig
 		lib/libharfbuzz.dylib
+		lib/libharfbuzz-cairo.dylib
+		lib/libharfbuzz-gobject.dylib
 		lib/libharfbuzz-icu.dylib
 		lib/libharfbuzz-subset.dylib
-		lib/libharfbuzz-cairo.0.dylib
-		lib/libharfbuzz-cairo.dylib
-		lib/libharfbuzz-icu.0.dylib
-		lib/libharfbuzz-subset.0.dylib
-		lib/libharfbuzz.0.dylib
 	<<
 	Depends: %N (= %v-%r)
 	Conflicts: libharfbuzz0-dev
 	Replaces: libharfbuzz0-dev
 	BuildDependsOnly: true
-	DocFiles: AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README.md
+	DocFiles: AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README.md SECURITY.md THANKS
 <<
 SplitOff2: <<
 	Package: libharfbuzz-bin
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@
 		libgettext8-shlibs,
 		libgraphite2-shlibs
 	<<
-	DocFiles: AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README.md
+	DocFiles: AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README.md SECURITY.md THANKS
 <<
 Homepage: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz
 DescDetail: <<

Are you planning to open a PR for those? Note that libharfbuzz 2.6.8 has been fixed to build with Xcode 16 in 86b119c, but @nieder can probably comment if there is anything barring an update to the latest version.

distler · 2024-11-07T03:09:44Z

Awesome! I was able to build those with the meson-py310 from above, too, just needed a couple changes to build in maintainer mode:

Thank! I am, obviously, rather clueless about the Fink Build System. Glad it wasn't too hard to turn my hacky efforts into something that works properly.

Are you planning to open a PR for those?

It would be better if someone who understands the Fink Build System a little better did that. There's presumably more cleaning up to do before submitting a PR.

For instance, I assume the ConfigureParams: line in glib2-shlibs.info is superfluous. Probably other bits of cruft that didn't interfere with the meson build, but could also be cleaned up.

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