[PATCH v2] build: automatically report minimum meson version

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 09:09:22AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Add a script to buildtools to report the minimum meson version given in
> > our meson.build file. Then use this script in two ways:
> >
> > 1. in the .ci/linux-setup.sh script, use the auto-determined minimum
> >    version to set up the CI, rather than hard-coding it.
> > 2. in meson.build call the script to report the version. This serves as
> >    a sanity check to ensure that any changes to meson.build file do not
> >    break the script.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Patrick Robb <probb at iol.unh.edu>
> > ---
> > v2: rebased to latest main
> 
> This patch is reverting dbcd72f3fba0 ("ci: fix unit tests with Fedora 37").
> 
> There were some strange errors raised by UNH, though I don't see the
> same python backtrace.
> Let's try again:
> Recheck-request: iol-unit-arm64-testing, iol-unit-amd64-testing
> 
If we have issues using 0.57, I don't see there being issues with us
marking the min meson version to 0.57.2 rather than 0.57 alone. I can do
that in a v3, or else we can abandon this patch, if you prefer.

/Bruce