meson: first try dependency(), then fallback to find_library()

This also drops the fallback for libacl, libcap, libcrypt, and libgcrypt,
as recent Ubuntu (at least, 20.04 LTS and newer) and Debian (at least, buster
and newer) have relevant .pc files.

Fixes #28161.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index c50de25146..fa2f7e3544 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1060,7 +1060,8 @@ threads = dependency('threads')
 librt = cc.find_library('rt')
 libm = cc.find_library('m')
 libdl = cc.find_library('dl')
-libcrypt = cc.find_library('crypt')
+libcrypt = dependency('libcrypt')
+libcap = dependency('libcap')
 
 # On some architectures, libatomic is required. But on some installations,
 # it is found, but actual linking fails. So let's try to use it opportunistically.
@@ -1084,12 +1085,6 @@ foreach ident : [
         conf.set10('HAVE_' + ident[0].to_upper(), have)
 endforeach
 
-libcap = dependency('libcap', required : false)
-if not libcap.found()
-        # Compat with Ubuntu 14.04 which ships libcap w/o .pc file
-        libcap = cc.find_library('cap')
-endif
-
 want_bpf_framework = get_option('bpf-framework')
 bpf_compiler = get_option('bpf-compiler')
 bpf_framework_required = want_bpf_framework == 'true'
@@ -1270,7 +1265,7 @@ conf.set10('ENABLE_POLKIT', install_polkit)
 
 want_acl = get_option('acl')
 if want_acl != 'false' and not skip_deps
-        libacl = cc.find_library('acl', required : want_acl == 'true')
+        libacl = dependency('libacl', required : want_acl == 'true')
         have = libacl.found()
 else
         have = false
@@ -1327,8 +1322,15 @@ conf.set10('HAVE_XENCTRL', have)
 
 want_pam = get_option('pam')
 if want_pam != 'false' and not skip_deps
-        libpam = cc.find_library('pam', required : want_pam == 'true')
-        libpam_misc = cc.find_library('pam_misc', required : want_pam == 'true')
+        libpam = dependency('pam', required : false)
+        if not libpam.found()
+                # Debian older than bookworm and Ubuntu older than 22.10 do not provide the .pc file.
+                libpam = cc.find_library('pam', required : want_pam == 'true')
+        endif
+        libpam_misc = dependency('pam_misc', required : false)
+        if not libpam_misc.found()
+                libpam_misc = cc.find_library('pam_misc', required : want_pam == 'true')
+        endif
         have = libpam.found() and libpam_misc.found()
 else
         have = false
@@ -1457,8 +1459,12 @@ conf.set10('HAVE_QRENCODE', have)
 
 want_gcrypt = get_option('gcrypt')
 if want_gcrypt != 'false' and not skip_deps
-        libgcrypt = cc.find_library('gcrypt', required : want_gcrypt == 'true')
-        libgpg_error = cc.find_library('gpg-error', required : want_gcrypt == 'true')
+        libgcrypt = dependency('libgcrypt', required : want_gcrypt == 'true')
+        libgpg_error = dependency('gpg-error', required : false)
+        if not libgpg_error.found()
+                # CentOS 8 does not provide the .pc file.
+                libgpg_error = cc.find_library('gpg-error', required : want_gcrypt == 'true')
+        endif
         have = libgcrypt.found() and libgpg_error.found()
 else
         have = false
@@ -1568,8 +1574,11 @@ conf.set10('HAVE_ZLIB', have)
 
 want_bzip2 = get_option('bzip2')
 if want_bzip2 != 'false' and not skip_deps
-        libbzip2 = cc.find_library('bz2',
-                                   required : want_bzip2 == 'true')
+        libbzip2 = dependency('bzip2', required : false)
+        if not libbzip2.found()
+                # Debian and Ubuntu do not provide the .pc file.
+                libbzip2 = cc.find_library('bz2', required : want_bzip2 == 'true')
+        endif
         have = libbzip2.found()
 else
         have = false