If the user runs `sudo meson install` this may run ninja to build
everything that gets installed. This naturally happens as root also, by
default, which is bad. Instead, detect root elevation tools and drop the
uid/gid of the child ninja process back to the original invoking user
before doing anything.
There's a couple issues with the current approach:
- pkexec is an unusual elevation method, the standard is sudo
- it tries to elevate even in automated workflows
- the user may not want to automatically rerun as root, that might be
badly behaved
Do some upfront checks instead, first to make sure it even makes sense
to try becoming root, and then to ask the user "do you really want
this". Also check for a couple common approaches to root elevation,
including doas.
Fixes#7345Fixes#7809
It is common, at least in GNOME projects, to install tests. Files goes
into various locations, including:
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/installed-tests
- /usr/share/installed-tests
- /usr/libexec/installed-tests
It is safe to assume that everything that goes into a "installed-tests"
subdir should be tagged as "tests" by default.
GLib installs a few executables that are not needed by applications that
use the glib libraries, but are used either by build systems or by user
scripts. Debian splits them into libglib2.0-dev-bin and libglib2.0-bin
packages. Another example is GStreamer tools (e.g. gst-launch-1.0) that
Debian packages separately in gstreamer1.0-tools.
It is common enough that Meson documentation should recommend a tag for
consistency across projects.
Meson already works like that, except in do_copydir() that requires
absolute destdir. Better explicitly support that instead of leaving it
undefined and unconsistent.
Remove the code responsible for implicitly compressing manpages as .gz
files. It has been established that manpage compression is a distro
packager's task, with existing distros already having their own
implementations of compression.
Fixes#4330
This is a cosmetic change because github seems to interpret those
correctly. Nonetheless, it adds unnecessary noise and makes people
modifying the pages think it might be needed.
See syntax guide at https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/
This allows us to more easily have the documentation in sync with
the source code as people will have to document new features etc
right at the time where they implement it.
Eli Schwartz