Development version of BIND 9 - 9.21.10 with meson build system

[Havard Eidnes]

> as previously announced, the BIND 9.21 (development branch) has
> changed the build system from venerable autotools to meson
> build system. If you build BIND 9 from sources now would be a
> good time to try building the development version from sources
> and report any issues you find to our GitLab issue tracker or
> raise any questions here.
>
> Packagers might want to pull patch 0002 and 0003 from here:
> https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/tree/debian/9.21/debian/patches?ref_type=heads
>
> The patch 0002 removes the RUNPATH/RPATH from the binaries and
> the 0003 patch restores the previous naming of the libraries
> where upstream version is part of the library name.  There
> might be more tweaks coming related to SONAME and SOVERSION.

I extracted BIND 9.21.11, and ... since meson is "new to me", I
tried looking around for the replacement of the backbone reflex
of doing

sh ./configure ....
make
make install

But by the looks of it, none can be found anywhere inside the
BIND distribution.  Yes, I also tried a cursory glance in the
doc/ subdirectory.

It would have been nice if a few lines of hints for how this is
customarily done or "what is the minimum you can get away with"
(which isn't necessarily the same as what is customarily done)
was provided somewhere easily accessible.

Some false starts:

: {142} ; meson setup

ERROR: Must specify at least one directory name.
: {143} ; meson setup .

ERROR: Source and build directories must not be the same. Create a pristine build directory.
: {144} ; pwd
/usr/local/src/bind-9.21.11
: {145} ;

at which point I simply gave up and decided instead to expose my
own inexperience with meson by asking for help, hence this message.

Best regadrds,

- Håvard