Meson is much nicer than autotools, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting. With this patch, you can invoke meson build -Ddocs=true ninja -C build sudo ninja -C build install to compile and install the package. Ninja accepts many targets: ninja -C build <target> For example, `doc/README` to build the textual readme file, `test` to run tidy (when available) on HTML docs, and `paprefs-pot`, `paprefs-gmo` and `paprefs-update-po` for various localization needs.
