Embedded Linux: mention Meson too

- Before adding more details later Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
bootlin · Oct 29, 2021 · efaaeb5 · efaaeb5
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diff --git a/slides/sysdev-application-development/sysdev-application-development.tex b/slides/sysdev-application-development/sysdev-application-development.tex
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ \subsection{Developing applications on embedded Linux}
     \begin{itemize}
     \item {\em autotools} is ancient, complicated but very
       widely used.
-    \item We recommend to invest in {\em CMake} instead: modern, simpler, smaller but
-      growing user base. See an example on \url{https://cmake.org/examples/}
+    \item We recommend to invest in simpler and more modern tools
+          instead, such as {\em CMake} and {\em Meson}.
     \end{itemize}
   \end{itemize}
 \end{frame}

diff --git a/slides/sysdev-embedded-linux/sysdev-embedded-linux.tex b/slides/sysdev-embedded-linux/sysdev-embedded-linux.tex
@@ -949,12 +949,16 @@ \subsection{System building}
     \end{itemize}
   \item CMake, \url{https://cmake.org/}
     \begin{itemize}
-    \item Newer and simpler than the {\em autotools}. Used by
+    \item More recent and simpler than the {\em autotools}. Used by
     (sometimes large) projects such as KDE, KiCad, LLVM / Clang,
     Scribus, OpenCV, Qt (since version 6).
     \end{itemize}
+  \item Meson, \url{https://mesonbuild.com/}
+    \begin{itemize}
+    \item Even more recent. Faster and simple to use. Now used by
+    projects such as GNOME (partially), GTK+, Gstreamer, Mesa, Systemd, Wayland (Weston).
+    \end{itemize}
   \item Scons, \url{https://scons.org/}
-  \item Waf, \url{https://waf.io/}
   \item Other manual build systems
   \end{itemize}
 \end{frame}