Bug 105080

Created attachment 137321 [details] [review]
0001-meson-Fix-bindir-usage-in-install-script.patch

Passing a bindir different from prefix like e.g.

meson --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin --libdir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib --libexecdir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libexec --includedir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/include --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --default-library=shared -Ddebug-gui=false -Dudev-dir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/udev -Ddocumentation=false -Dlibwacom=false -Dtests=false /var/tmp/paludis/build/sys-libs-libinput-1.10.0/work/libinput-1.10.0

to meson results in an install error later on:

[...]
--- /usr/bin/libinput-list-devices
--- /usr/bin/libinput-debug-events
--- No need to do anything for preinst phase
>>> Checking whether we can merge to / ..................
!!! Expected '/usr/bin' to be a directory but found a symlink to a directory
[...]

It should respect the bindir passed via meson configure and install to /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin instead of /usr/bin.

There was aleady a patch proposed which still applies to 1.10.0 and fixed the problem: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/036009.html

For completeness the patch is attached as well.