Merge branch 'core-updates-frozen' into 'master'.

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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/meson-allow-dirs-outside-of-prefix.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/meson-allow-dirs-outside-of-prefix.patch
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index 0000000000..f16daa8009
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/meson-allow-dirs-outside-of-prefix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/meson/allow-dirs-outside-of-prefix.patch
+--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
++++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+@@ -506,7 +506,6 @@ class CoreData:
+             return value
+         if option.name.endswith('dir') and value.is_absolute() and \
+            option not in BULITIN_DIR_NOPREFIX_OPTIONS:
+-            # Value must be a subdir of the prefix
+             # commonpath will always return a path in the native format, so we
+             # must use pathlib.PurePath to do the same conversion before
+             # comparing.
+@@ -518,7 +517,7 @@ class CoreData:
+             try:
+                 value = value.relative_to(prefix)
+             except ValueError:
+-                raise MesonException(msg.format(option, value, prefix))
++                pass
+             if '..' in str(value):
+                 raise MesonException(msg.format(option, value, prefix))
+         return value.as_posix()