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 **Mesa's Meson build system is generally considered stable and ready for
production.** 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, The Meson build of Mesa is tested on Linux, macOS, Windows, Cygwin,
Haiku, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, and should work on OpenBSD. Haiku, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, and should work on OpenBSD.