meson: also search for libcap directly

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b18e645d39d8b012a10cba0f07220b219b754520..c412aff91f23361cd8bd6c1c774587131d5538ec 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -614,7 +614,12 @@ libm = cc.find_library('m')
 libdl = cc.find_library('dl')
 libcrypt = cc.find_library('crypt')
 
-libcap = dependency('libcap')
+libcap = dependency('libcap', required : false)
+if not libcap.found()
+        # Compat with Ubuntu 14.04 which ships libcap w/o .pc file
+        libcap = cc.find_library('cap')
+endif
+
 libmount = dependency('mount',
                       version : '>= 2.27')