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[3/3] README: Add note about meson

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Dylan Baker Jan. 3, 2018, 9:31 p.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylan.c.baker@intel.com>
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 Compiling
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-libdrm  is  a  standard  autotools  package and  follows  the  normal
-configure, build  and install steps.   The first step is  to configure
-the package, which is done by running the configure shell script:
+libdrm has two build systems, a legacy autotools build system, and a newer
+meson build system. The meson build system is much faster, and offers a 
+slightly different interface, but otherwise provides much the same 
+feature set.
+
+To use it:
+
+    meson builddir
+
+By default this will install into /usr/local, you can change your prefix
+with --prefix=/usr (or -Dprefix=/usr to meson configure).
+
+Then use ninja to build and install:
+
+    ninja -C builddir install
+
+
+Alternatively you can invoke autotools configure:
 
 	./configure