[Buildroot] ninja/python-meson packages

[Fatih Aşıcı]

On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 6:26:38 PM +03, Cédric Marie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Regarding python-meson package that was proposed here:
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-June/163437.html
>
>>> However, I could provide a real package infrastructure named 
>>> "meson-package",
>>> but as stated in the discussion about adding support for Cargo (the Rust
>>> package manager), to provide such infrastructure, at least 
>>> one package using
>>> it should also be provided (it is sensible to have a working example of
>>> the infrastructure).
>
>> I would not say one, but at least 4-5 packages, with a pretty good
>> confidence that more packages would be added later on.
>
> Gstreamer has added Meson as an alternative build system (to 
> Autotools) since August 2016:
>
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/commit/meson.build?id=b2f9808722a0254acba17ef98a612a2792184e12

libepoxy is also another project that uses Meson build system. Since 1.4.0,
the "Building" section in README.md has commands to build with Meson:

  https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy/tree/1.4.1#building

Regards,
Fatih