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+inherit python3native
+
+DEPENDS_append = " meson-native ninja-native"
+
+# As Meson enforces out-of-tree builds we can just use cleandirs
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
+do_configure[cleandirs] = "${B}"
+
+# Where the meson.build build configuration is
+MESON_SOURCEPATH = "${S}"
+
+# These variables in the environment override the *native* tools not the cross,
+# so they need to be unexported.
+CC[unexport] = "1"
+
+def noprefix(var, d):
+    return d.getVar(var, True).replace(d.getVar('prefix', True) + '/', '', 1)
+
+MESONOPTS = " --prefix ${prefix} \
+              --bindir ${@noprefix('bindir', d)} \
+              --datadir ${@noprefix('datadir', d)} \
+              --libdir ${@noprefix('libdir', d)} \
+              --libexecdir ${@noprefix('libexecdir', d)} \
+              --includedir ${@noprefix('includedir', d)} \
+              --mandir ${@noprefix('mandir', d)} \
+              --localedir ${@noprefix('localedir', d)} \
+              --sysconfdir ${sysconfdir}"
+
+MESON_C_ARGS = "${HOST_CC_ARCH}${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}"
+
+MESON_HOST_ENDIAN = "${@bb.utils.contains('SITEINFO_ENDIANNESS', 'be', 'big', 'little', d)}"
+MESON_TARGET_ENDIAN = "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'bigendian', 'big', 'little', d)}"
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS}"
+
+def meson_array(var, d):
+    return "', '".join(d.getVar(var, True).split()).join(("'", "'"))
+
+addtask write_config before do_configure
+do_write_config[vardeps] += "MESON_C_ARGS TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS"
+do_write_config() {
+    # This needs to be Py to split the args into single-element lists
+    cat >${WORKDIR}/meson.cross <<EOF
+[binaries]
+c = '${HOST_PREFIX}gcc'
+cpp = '${HOST_PREFIX}gcc'
+ar = '${HOST_PREFIX}ar'
+ld = '${HOST_PREFIX}ld'
+strip = '${HOST_PREFIX}strip'
+readelf = '${HOST_PREFIX}readelf'
+pkgconfig = 'pkg-config'
+
+[properties]
+c_args = [${@meson_array('MESON_C_ARGS', d)}]
+c_link_args = [${@meson_array('TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS', d)}]
+
+[host_machine]
+system = '${HOST_OS}'
+cpu_family = '${HOST_ARCH}'
+cpu = '${HOST_ARCH}'
+endian = '${MESON_HOST_ENDIAN}'
+
+[target_machine]
+system = '${TARGET_OS}'
+cpu_family = '${TARGET_ARCH}'
+cpu = '${TARGET_ARCH}'
+endian = '${MESON_TARGET_ENDIAN}'
+EOF
+}
+
+meson_do_configure() {
+    if ! meson ${MESONOPTS} "${MESON_SOURCEPATH}" "${B}" --cross-file ${WORKDIR}/meson.cross ${EXTRA_OEMESON}; then
+        cat ${B}/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
+        bbfatal_log meson failed
+    fi
+}
+
+meson_do_compile() {
+    ninja ${PARALLEL_MAKE}
+}
+
+meson_do_install() {
+    DESTDIR='${D}' ninja ${PARALLEL_MAKEINST} install
+}
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_configure do_compile do_install