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    meson: Add option to control building wayland-scanner · 618663c7
    Matt Turner authored
    
    
    Wayland requires a binary, wayland-scanner, to be run during the build
    process. For any configuration other than native builds (including
    cross compiling and even 32-bit x86 builds on an x86-64 build machine)
    Wayland's build process builds and uses its own wayland-scanner.
    
    For any builds using a cross file, wayland-scanner is built for the host
    machine and therefore cannot be executed during the build of the Wayland
    libraries. Instead builds using a cross file must execute the build
    machine's wayland-scanner (typically /usr/bin/wayland-scanner).
    
    As such, to build Wayland's libraries for a non-native ABI a package
    manager must build and install /usr/bin/wayland-scanner first. But then
    the build for the native ABI then rebuilds wayland-scanner itself and
    doesn't use the system's, and worse, wants to install its own, which
    conflicts with the /usr/bin/wayland-scanner already installed!
    
    So, add the -Dscanner=... option to control whether to install
    wayland-scanner.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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