Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Modernize the build system

>   - The last patch is a compatibility patch for "seen". There are a
>     couple of topics that interact with this series, and I didn't want
>     to make all of them a strict dependency. So I've decided to just
>     create a fixup-style commit that does the necessary changes in order
>     to work with "seen". Like this, you can test without "seen" by
>     simply dropping that last commit, and you can test with "seen" by
>     merging it into this topic.
>
>     @Taylor: I didn't really have a better idea than this. There are
>     six additional topics that this branch interacts with, and building
>     the branch with eight dependencies in total didn't feel sensible.
>     Ideally, the topic branch itself shouldn't have the last commit, but
>     once it gets merged into 'seen' we should have it. Let me know in
>     case you have a better idea though.
>
> This topic is built on top of fd3785337b (The third batch, 2024-10-22)
> with the following two branches merged into it:
>
>   - ps/upgrade-clar at 30bf9f0aaa (cmake: set up proper dependencies for
>     generated clar headers, 2024-10-21). This is currently in 'seen'.
>
>   - ps/platform-compat-fixes at 80ebd91b83 (http: fix build error on
>     FreeBSD, 2024-10-16). This has been merged to 'next'.

> I was pondering a bit whether I should split this topic up even further.
> I've already evicted other parts out of it such that they can land
> separately, and landing the Makefile refactorings independently would
> reduce the overall review load. These steps also make sense even if we
> don't have Meson, as those are all either simplifications, improvements
> for CMake or a necessary step towards out-of-tree builds. Let me know
> your thoughts!