[Kea-users] meson setup build failed with unknown keyword arguments "license_files"

[Andrei Pavel]

Hi!

license_files needs meson >= 1.1.0.  Even if Kea didn't have a 
license_files entry and the meson.options file which requires the same 
version range, there are good reasons to build with meson >= 1.8.0 
especially if you build with unit tests as outlined here: 
https://reports.kea.isc.org/dev_guide/d1/d2e/unitTests.html

`./hammer.py prepare-system -p local` or `./meson.sh --install` will 
install a modern version.

You can also use `./meson.sh` instead of `meson` if you don't want to 
pollute your global environment e.g. `./meson.sh setup build`, 
`./meson.sh compile -C build`, etc.

You can also install a modern version of meson with pip, pipx, poetry, 
or other python dependency managers.

I hope this helps.

--
Andrei

On 02/06/2025 09:56, Gregor Kling wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to build from source (HEAD -> master) and getting the error: 
> meson.build:17:0: ERROR: project got unknown keyword arguments 
> "license_files"
>
> meson.build references  license_files: ['COPYING'], where COPYING is 
> the actual file that
>
> contains the license, which seems reasonable.
>
> Can someone help out?
>
>
> gg
>
>