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[th/meson-prefix-dir] build/meson: honor prefix for udev_dir and don't use pkg-config

Thomas Haller requested to merge th/meson-prefix-dir into main

When building with mesond -Dprefix=/tmp/nm, then we would expect that udev files are installed there (wouldn't we?).

The user can already explicitly set "-Dudev_dir=", or even disable installing the files with "-Dudev_dir=no".

Note that meson be default pre-populates get_option("prefix"), so there is always something set. So we cannot just act on whether the user set a prefix. It seems to default to /usr/local.

Note that package builds from Fedora spec file pass "-Dprefix=/usr".

I think we should honor the prefix. However, then it seems wrong to also honor pkg-config at the same time. In particular, because pkg-config --variable=udevdir udev gives /usr/lib/udev. That means, if we would just prepend the default prefix "/usr" or "/usr/local" to "/usr/lib/udev" we get the wrong result.

Note that we already to the same for autotools.


See !1187 (comment 1365220)

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