From 50d0033f7ee600c5f5831b28877353769d1f7d48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 05:44:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] meson.build: Minor doc fix.

---
 meson.build | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 13142bc24..887975ffc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ project('freetype2', 'c',
 )
 
 
-# Apparently meson doesn't provide a `read_file` function, so instead
-# running an external command is required.
+# Only meson >= 0.57 can read a file and assign its contents to a
+# variable; we thus use an external command to have this functionality
+# with older versions, too.
 
 python = import('python')
 python_exe = python.find_installation(required: true)