[Github-comments] [geany/geany] WIP: Meson build system (#2761)

[Eli Schwartz]

The notice of future deprecation can be safely ignored as long as you aren't bumping your minimum requirements.

The issue with `$prefix/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu` is because there's a Debian quirk. For both autotools and meson, the default if not specified is `--libdir=lib`, however, only with Meson that default changes to the directory output by `dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH`.

With autotools, the official debian package for geany instead just passes an option to `./configure --libdir='${prefix}lib/x86_64-linux-gnu .....` because they really, really, really want all projects to use that directory.

The user specified value `--libdir=lib` will always override that. But apparently it's considered a bad idea on Debian.

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