bug#26568: [PATCH] gnu : Add meson.

[Corentin Bocquillon <corentin@nybble.fr>]

Hello Ludovic, thank you for pushing it.
And sorry for the email address, I forgot to set it.

Le jeudi 20 avril 2017 à 14:16:01+0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
> Hi Corentin,
> 
> I applied your patch with the minor changes below and with a commit log
> closer to our conventions (see
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html>.)
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Ludo’.
> 
> PS: I cannot push it right now because git.sv.gnu.org is currently
>     unavailable.
> PPS: The email address that you used, <corentin@nibupac>, is invalid; I
>      hope you’ll get this message somehow.  :-)
> 

> diff --git a/gnu/packages/build-tools.scm b/gnu/packages/build-tools.scm
> index e26c31511..0f6a10bbc 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/build-tools.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/build-tools.scm
> @@ -81,11 +81,12 @@ makes a few sacrifices to acquire fast full and incremental build times.")
>      (build-system python-build-system)
>      (inputs `(("ninja", ninja)))
>      (home-page "https://mesonbuild.com/")
> -    (synopsis "Meson build system")
> +    (synopsis "Build system designed to be fast and user-friendly")
>      (description
> -     "The meson build system is focused on user-friendliness and speed.
> -According to the developpers of meson, every seconds spent waiting for
> -the build system, writing or debugging build definitions is a second wasted
> -so meson is designed to be very fast and simple.
> -It supports C, C++, Fortran, Java and Rust.")
> -    (license asl2.0)))
> +     "The Meson build system is focused on user-friendliness and speed.
> +It can compile code written in C, C++, Fortran, Java, Rust, and other
> +languages.  Meson provides features comparable to those of the
> +Autoconf/Automake/make combo.  Build specifications, also known as @dfn{Meson
> +files}, are written in a custom domain-specific language (DSL) that resembles
> +Python.")
> +    (license license:asl2.0)))