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Author SHA1 Message Date
Aydın Mercan
ccae13b482
Add missing files for meson built manpages
These manual entries still get built and installed but get excluded from
meson's rebuild detection.
2025-07-08 13:44:03 +03:00
Michał Kępień
caa0451e28
Fix named-makejournal man page installation
The man page for named-makejournal is erroneously not installed when
building from a source tarball.  Add that man page to the appropriate
lists in the build system so that it is installed both when building
from a Git repository and from a source tarball.
2025-07-08 13:44:03 +03:00
Aydın Mercan
5cd6c173ff
replace the build system with meson
Meson is a modern build system that has seen a rise in adoption and some
version of it is available in almost every platform supported.

Compared to automake, meson has the following advantages:

* Meson provides a significant boost to the build and configuration time
  by better exploiting parallelism.

* Meson is subjectively considered to be better in readability.

These merits alone justify experimenting with meson as a way of
improving development time and ergonomics. However, there are some
compromises to ensure the transition goes relatively smooth:

* The system tests currently rely on various files within the source
  directory. Changing this requirement is a non-trivial task that can't
  be currently justified. Currently the last compiled build directory
  writes into the source tree which is in turn used by pytest.

* The minimum version supported has been fixed at 0.61. Increasing this
  value will require choosing a baseline of distributions that can
  package with meson. On the contrary, there will likely be an attempt
  to decrease this value to ensure almost universal support for building
  BIND 9 with meson.
2025-06-11 10:30:12 +03:00