Upgrade meson version?

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Patrick, *,

On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM Patrick Luby <guibomacdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Building LibreOffice on macOS Tahoe public beta and Xcode 26 beta works and it runs.

Nice, thx for being on the bleeding edge...

> However, the meson version in LODE breaks the build so I had to use meson 1.8.3. I don’t have commit access to LODE but I did do completely clean git clone and builds of both LODE and LibreOffice master on macOS Sequoia and Tahoe with the following patch:

Interesting - I replied in the gerrit request, would be interesting to
see why it fails with 1.8.3

And also that the version in lode was an intermediate solution only,
it basically already has been made obsolete by providing a builtin
version of meson (since that only requires extracting a small tarball)
– so instead of updating lode, bumping the builtin version of meson in
download.lst (and no longer explicitly probing the version in lode)
would be sufficient for that.

> Can anyone review and commit the above if it looks OK?

No issues with bumping the version of meson in itself, but I'd prefer
to have a single required version, not different versions per OS or
per different build configurations of the OS.
For those not wanting to use the bumped internal copy (like distro
packagers/similar, there's always the way of specifying
MESON=/use/this/meson in autogen.input.

ciao
Christian