Re: [ITA] p11-kit NMU upgrade from 0.23.20 to 0.26.2 test

On 11/02/2026 18:04, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I would like to adopt p11-kit orphaned security package.
> 
> I built an NMU test upgrade to the latest release in playground and in 
> GH Scallywag CI, and it passes most tests.
> 
> An intermediate release changed the build system from autotools to 
> meson/ninja/cmake which made the upgrade interesting. ;^>
> 
> The meson build created interface .DLLs instead of .SOs, except for the 
> library .so, which was symlinked as ...bin/cygp11-kit-0.dll as before, 
> although there is now a $S/$NAME/meson_post_install.sh to do so in the 
> DESTDIR $D.
> 
> That script takes a libdir arg, so is there any reason or some way to 
> handle that as a postinstall script for libp11-kit0
> 
> Another difference I noticed was that the build dir was
> 
>      $S/_build.$ARCH-pc-cygwin
> 
> from which I did a lndirs into $B after meson-install, just in case it 
> affected cygport processing.
> It would be good if we could persuade meson/ninja/cmake to use $B as usual.

Yeah, it would be nice if meson.cygclass used ${B} like everything else.

If I recall correctly, using that directory is a workaround to get the 
form of paths that meson ends up writing into the ninja.build rules 
(absolute? relative?) to interact correctly with the -ffile-prefix-map 
option.

There's a few discussions on the topic in the archives here.

PTC, obviously.

> Any advice or feedback from experience with meson builds would be useful.