Add meson build support

[zhuyaliang]

test meson

meson setup _build --prefix=/usr 
ninja -C _build

DESTDIR=/tmp/meson_dir meson install -C _build

test make

 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr 
make

make install DESTDIR=/tmp/make_dir

[raveit65]

When PR is still in progress you can convert them to a draft. This feature is also in gitlab available.

[lukefromdc]

The previous problems are fixed but the menu file is not found. Trying to launch the control center I get ** (mate-control-center:102205): WARNING **: 01:54:45.669: Menu tree loading got error:Failed to look up menu_file for "matecc.menu"

matecc.menu turned up in /etc/xdg/autostart

[zhuyaliang]

@lukefromdc Please delete /etc/xdg/autostart/matecc.menu

[zhuyaliang]

Please test again

[lukefromdc]

if we can get another review, ideally different distro and with accountsservice installed it would be nice. Debian Unstable here

[raveit65]

Mime dir is at the wrong place and a lot of files are missing. Please use your own installation instructions and compare.

[rave@mother ~]$ ls -la /tmp/meson_dir/usr/mime/
insgesamt 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 rave rave  60 21. Dez 16:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 rave rave 140 21. Dez 16:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 rave rave  60 21. Dez 16:20 packages

[rave@mother ~]$ ls -la /tmp/make_dir/usr/share/mime/
insgesamt 32
drwxr-xr-x  4 rave rave 320 21. Dez 16:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 rave rave 280 21. Dez 16:27 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave   0 21. Dez 16:27 aliases
drwxr-xr-x  2 rave rave  60 21. Dez 16:27 application
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave   0 21. Dez 16:27 generic-icons
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave 131 21. Dez 16:27 globs
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave 134 21. Dez 16:27 globs2
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave   0 21. Dez 16:27 icons
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave  12 21. Dez 16:27 magic
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave 244 21. Dez 16:27 mime.cache
drwxr-xr-x  2 rave rave  60 21. Dez 16:27 packages
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave  62 21. Dez 16:27 subclasses
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave  16 21. Dez 16:27 treemagic
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave  33 21. Dez 16:27 types
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave   4 21. Dez 16:27 version
-rw-r--r--  1 rave rave   0 21. Dez 16:27 XMLnamespaces

[raveit65]

The rest of the installation is the same as with autotools. Function of applications aren't tested because i do not use meson for my RPMs for fedora. I am to lazy to rewrite my spec files :-)

[zhuyaliang]

Need to run update-mime-database -V /tmp/meson_dir/usr/share/mime/ update mime data,I have added meson_post_istall. py, and the mime data will be updated after the installation is completed

[raveit65]

Not sure if this is a good idea to add meson_post_install.py, because all this commands glib-compile-schemas, 'gtk-update-icon-cache' and 'update-mime-database` are done with rpm package installation process. So this is a double action. I am sure debian and archlinux packaging do the same.

[raveit65]

Btw. the script itself might be OK. But should this be called by meson.build?

[raveit65]

After running update-mime-database -V /tmp/meson_dir/usr/share/mime/ the mime data are the same as with autotools. Also the mime datadir are the same now. I thought you wants to run the meson_post_install.py with meson.build ? This didn't happen here and i am fine with it.

[lukefromdc]

The package should be installable directly with ninja -C build install in which case we then need to recompile schemas from the build system as the packaging system is bypassed.

[raveit65]

I tested it again and mine dir are the same after running update-mime-database -V /tmp/meson_dir/usr/share/mime/.