From: Eric Engestrom Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 20:39:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: docs: suggest alternative installation methods for meson X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e94a122642f6f4878e87e9f83baf31a82b9c248e;p=mesa.git docs: suggest alternative installation methods for meson A couple of popular distros have a habit of never updating anything. Point their users towards ways of using current versions of meson anyway. Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt Part-of: --- diff --git a/docs/meson.rst b/docs/meson.rst index 68def26db99..ad06570be22 100644 --- a/docs/meson.rst +++ b/docs/meson.rst @@ -10,7 +10,14 @@ website `__. **Mesa's Meson build system is generally considered stable and ready for production.** -.. note:: Mesa requires Meson >= 0.52.0 to build. +.. note:: + + Mesa requires Meson >= 0.52.0 to build. + + If your distribution doesn't have something recent enough in its + repositories, you can `try the methods suggested here + `__ to install the + current version of Meson. The Meson build of Mesa is tested on Linux, macOS, Windows, Cygwin, Haiku, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, and should work on OpenBSD.