Update portability tests to use Meson #184

Job	Run time
build (ubuntu:trusty)	8s
build (ubuntu:xenial)	6s
build (ubuntu:bionic)	8s
build (ubuntu:jammy)	13s
build (ubuntu:lunar)	17s
build (ubuntu:mantic)	17s
build (debian:buster)	23s
build (debian:bookworm)	21s
build (debian:sid)	20s
build (debian:experimental)	24s
build (linuxmintd/mint21-amd64)	59s
build (linuxmintd/mint21.1-amd64)	1m 8s
build (linuxmintd/mint21.2-amd64)	58s
build (fedora:30)	1m 2s
build (fedora:31)	1m 0s
build (fedora:32)	54s
build (fedora:34)	54s
build (fedora:35)	56s
build (fedora:36)	54s
build (fedora:37)	1m 1s
build (fedora:39)	1m 1s
build (fedora:40)	42s
build (centos:centos7)	8s
build (quay.io/centos/centos:stream8)	23s
build (almalinux:8)	30s
build (archlinux)	20s
	15m 27s

Provide feedback