Usually if I'm building something from source I read the entire set of configuration flags and take notes on which configurations I might like, which configurat

Usually if I'm building something from source I read the entire set of configuration flags and take notes on which configurations I might like, which configurations I might want to turn off, and which configurations I don't understand. So yes I would read all the options in the meson_options.txt and decide how I want to configure systemd before beginning the cross-compile. Someone posted the other day that an autotools/automake should canonically be run like this: ./configure make make install But really the best workflow is like this: ./configure --help (read "help" intently) mkdir build_output_dir cd build_output_dir ../configure [huge list of options for the build] make make install I would do the same thing here.