Fixes to the new meson/ninja build system. Pretty close to working... I think.

src/cthulhu/meson.build

@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ configure_file(
     'bindir': get_option('bindir'),
     'libdir': get_option('libdir'),
     'datadir': get_option('datadir'),
+    'PYTHON': python3.full_path(),
+    'PYTHON_PREFIX': python3.get_install_dir(),
+    'pythondir': python3.get_install_dir(),
   }
 )
 
@@ -106,6 +109,7 @@ configure_file(
     'GETTEXT_PACKAGE': 'cthulhu',
     'prefix': get_option('prefix'),
     'datadir': get_option('datadir'),
+    'localedir': get_option('datadir') / 'locale',
   }
 )
 
@@ -119,18 +123,13 @@ configure_file(
     'datadir': get_option('datadir'),
     'sysconfdir': get_option('sysconfdir'),
     'localstatedir': get_option('localstatedir'),
+    'PACKAGE': 'cthulhu',
+    'REVISION': run_command('git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD', check: false).stdout().strip(),
+    'LOUIS_TABLE_DIR': '/usr/share/liblouis/tables',
   }
 )
 
-# Main executable script
-configure_file(
-  input: 'cthulhu',
-  output: 'cthulhu',
-  copy: true,
-  install: true,
-  install_dir: get_option('bindir'),
-  install_mode: 'rwxr-xr-x'
-)
+# Note: Main executable (cthulhu) is installed from src/cthulhu.py
 
 # Install Python sources
 python3.install_sources(

src/meson.build

@@ -1 +1,9 @@
+# Main executable script
+install_data(
+  'cthulhu.py',
+  rename: 'cthulhu',
+  install_dir: get_option('bindir'),
+  install_mode: 'rwxr-xr-x'
+)
+
 subdir('cthulhu')