[Slackbuilds-users] templates/ proposed updates

[Logan Rathbone]

I have a few thoughts on the meson template.

The current meson template runs the initial setup operation
(equivalent to ./configure) by running entering into the build
directory and running `meson` without argument on the parent
directory. This is deprecated - `meson setup` is the command that is
supposed to be run these days.

No warning message is printed with the version of meson that ships
with 15.0, but in newer versions such as -current, we're going to
start seeing lots of annoying warning messages once 15.1 is released.
The version shipped with 15.0 also supports `meson setup`, so there is
no harm in migrating the template now.

Also, the creation and chdir's to and from $CWD/build are unnecessary,
since meson will handle this on its own via the `setup` command as
well as via the `-C` option.

Attached please find a diff with proposed changes to the meson template.

Regards,
L.A. Rathbone (poprocks)

On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 11:38 AM K. Eugene Carlson <kvngncrlsn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you're open to suggestions, maybe some kind of reminder about noarch for the perl template would be appropriate.
>
> I did a test run, and almost 300 packages in the perl series triggered the "good candidate for noarch" sbopkglint message.
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