https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libnice/libnice/-/merge_requests/259

From a34623e08e368d56fe6c7fcb7a1f87ea59ad5094 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 18:34:11 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] meson: Generate nice-version.h in the right builddir

We want it in the `nice/` subdir so that it gets picked up correctly
during uninstalled builds, such as in the gstreamer monorepo.

The `NICE_CHECK_VERSION` macro was non-functional in the monorepo
because of this.
---
 gst/meson.build  |  3 +--
 meson.build      |  9 ---------
 nice/meson.build | 12 +++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gst/meson.build b/gst/meson.build
index 572c6abc..4ed4794f 100644
--- a/gst/meson.build
+++ b/gst/meson.build
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ libgstnice = library('gstnice',
   gst_nice_sources,
   c_args : gst_nice_args,
   include_directories: nice_incs,
-  dependencies: [nice_deps, gst_dep],
-  link_with: libnice,
+  dependencies: [libnice_dep, gst_dep],
   install_dir: gst_plugins_install_dir,
   install: true)
 plugins = [libgstnice]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 6a733b73..4faffb40 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -85,15 +85,6 @@ add_project_arguments('-D_GNU_SOURCE',
   '-DNICE_VERSION_NANO=' + version_nano,
   language: 'c')
 
-version_conf = configuration_data()
-version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_MAJOR', version_major)
-version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_MINOR', version_minor)
-version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_MICRO', version_micro)
-version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_NANO', version_nano)
-nice_version_h = configure_file(output: 'nice-version.h',
-  install_dir: get_option('includedir') / 'nice',
-  configuration: version_conf)
-
 cdata = configuration_data()
 
 cdata.set_quoted('PACKAGE_STRING', meson.project_name())
diff --git a/nice/meson.build b/nice/meson.build
index 6916781d..4f826d81 100644
--- a/nice/meson.build
+++ b/nice/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-nice_gen_sources = [nice_version_h]
 nice_link_args = []
 
 # libnice.def
@@ -31,9 +30,20 @@ libnice = library('nice',
   link_depends: mapfile,
   install: true)
 
+version_conf = configuration_data()
+version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_MAJOR', version_major)
+version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_MINOR', version_minor)
+version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_MICRO', version_micro)
+version_conf.set('NICE_VERSION_NANO', version_nano)
+nice_version_h = configure_file(output: 'nice-version.h',
+  install_dir: get_option('includedir') / 'nice',
+  configuration: version_conf)
+
 install_headers('nice.h', subdir: 'nice')
 nice_include = include_directories('.')
 
+nice_gen_sources = [nice_version_h]
+
 # introspection
 build_gir = gir.found() and not get_option('introspection').disabled()
 if build_gir
-- 
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