[MacPorts] #59864: meson-1.0.tcl: Use a cross file

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#59864: meson-1.0.tcl: Use a cross file
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  Reporter:  ryandesign   |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Replying to [comment:2 kencu]:
 > not sure it's great to include the muniversal portgroup inside that
 portfile, but it's much easier than doing having to define it separately
 in every port that uses meson I suppose.

 If that's the only way to do a universal build with meson, and I suspect
 you're right that it is at this time, then including the muniveral
 portgroup in the meson portgroup is probably the right thing to do.

 However, individual ports that use meson may still want or need to disable
 the universal variant, which they would want to do by specifying
 `universal_variant no`. I am not sure whether the muniversal portgroup
 respects that. I suspect that it does not. If not, adding support for that
 to the muniversal portgroup might be nice, but I anticipate that this will
 actually break a whole lot of ports which do not have a universal variant
 by default and which currently use the muniversal portgroup and expect it
 to provide a universal variant even though they are not setting
 `universal_variant yes`.

 It looks like the octave portgroup includes a workaround for this
 deficiency in the muniversal portgroup. Until the muniversal portgroup is
 fixed to support this, I guess that same workaround can be used in the
 meson portgroup.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/59864#comment:3>
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