PackagingDrafts/Meson

Guidelines for Meson

This document provides best-practices for usage of ninja in packaging RPMs for Fedora.

BuildRequires

You MUST add following BuildRequires:

BuildRequires: meson

RPM Macros

• %__meson -- meson executable
• %__sourcedir -- source directory (NOTE: you can override it using %global, default: .)
• %__builddir -- build directory (NOTE: you can override it using %global, default: %{_target_platform})
• %__meson_ninja_opts -- options which will be passed to ninja
• %meson_build -- alias for %ninja_build -C %{__builddir}
• %meson_install -- alias for %ninja_install -C %{__builddir}
• %meson_test -- alias for %ninja_test -C %{__builddir}

For more information see source code
%{rpmmacrodir}/macros.ninja (/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.ninja)

Example RPM spec file

Name:           example-meson
Version:        1
Release:        1%{?dist}
Summary:        Example package which uses Meson

License:        Public Domain
URL:            https://localhost
Source:         %{url}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz

BuildRequires:  meson

%prep
%autosetup

%build
%meson
%meson_build

%install
%meson_install

%check
%meson_test

%files
%{_bindir}/%{name}