Finesse doesn't build using Meson

[vaastav]

I tried building Finesse using Meson but it doesn't build as it complains that libfuse is missing. I am using meson version 0.54.2.

Here is the error log when I try the cmd meson .. in the build folder.

Build type: native build Project name: libfuse3 Project version: 3.9.1 C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 5.5.0 "cc (Ubuntu 5.5.0-12ubuntu1~16.04) 5.5.0 20171010") C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.26.1 Host machine cpu family: x86_64 Host machine cpu: x86_64 Checking for function "fork" : YES Checking for function "fstatat" : YES Checking for function "openat" : YES Checking for function "readlinkat" : YES Checking for function "pipe2" : YES Checking for function "splice" : YES Checking for function "vmsplice" : YES Checking for function "posix_fallocate" : YES Checking for function "fdatasync" : YES Checking for function "utimensat" : YES Checking for function "copy_file_range" : NO Checking for function "fallocate" : YES Checking for function "setxattr" : YES Checking for function "iconv" : YES Checking whether type "struct stat" has member "st_atim" : YES Checking whether type "struct stat" has member "st_atimespec" : NO Configuring config.h using configuration ../meson.build:68: WARNING: Consider using the built-in warning_level option instead of using "-Wall". ../meson.build:68: WARNING: Consider using the built-in warning_level option instead of using "-Wextra". ../meson.build:72: WARNING: Consider using the built-in warning_level option instead of using "-Wall". ../meson.build:72: WARNING: Consider using the built-in warning_level option instead of using "-Wextra". ../meson.build:72: WARNING: Consider using the built-in option for language standard version instead of using "-std=c++11". Message: Compiler warns about unused result even when casting to void Run-time dependency threads found: YES Library uuid found: YES Library rt found: YES Library uuid found: YES

../finesse/communications/meson.build:5:0: ERROR: C library 'libfuse' not found

[fsgeek]

I wasn't able to reproduce the issue, but we don't need the libfuse dependency for the communications package anyway, so I've removed it in 365f179. If that fixes it, we can close the issue. If not, I'll need to figure out a better repro case for it.

[vaastav]

Now, I get the same error but for the util package instead.

../finesse/util/meson.build:4:0: ERROR: C library 'libfuse' not found

[fsgeek]

I've removed libfuse dependency from all the other finesse subdirectories, since it isn't needed in any of them. Let's hope that fixes it.

9dd6ce2

[vaastav]

That seems to have done the trick,