docs: suggest alternative installation methods for meson

A couple of popular distros have a habit of never updating anything.
Point their users towards ways of using current versions of meson anyway.

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/2988>
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@ -10,7 +10,14 @@ website <https://mesonbuild.com/>`__.
**Mesa's Meson build system is generally considered stable and ready for
production.**
.. note:: Mesa requires Meson >= 0.52.0 to build.
.. note::
Mesa requires Meson >= 0.52.0 to build.
If your distribution doesn't have something recent enough in its
repositories, you can `try the methods suggested here
<https://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html>`__ to install the
current version of Meson.
The Meson build of Mesa is tested on Linux, macOS, Windows, Cygwin,
Haiku, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, and should work on OpenBSD.