--- a/meson.build

+++ b/meson.build

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@

 project('AppStream', 'c',

-  meson_version: '>=0.62',

+  meson_version: '>=0.59',

   default_options: ['c_std=c11', 'cpp_std=gnu++14'],

   license: 'LGPL-2.1+',

--- a/po/meson.build

+++ b/po/meson.build

@@ -1,8 +1,22 @@

 as_gettext_domain = 'appstream'

-i18n_result = i18n.gettext(as_gettext_domain,

+if meson.version().version_compare('>=0.60')

+    i18n_result = i18n.gettext(as_gettext_domain,

+        preset : 'glib',

+        data_dirs: [join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'data', 'its')],

+        args: [

+            '--default-domain=' + as_gettext_domain,

+            '--from-code=UTF-8',

+            '-i', '-F', '-c', '--no-wrap',

+            '--package-name=' + as_gettext_domain,

+            '--copyright-holder=Matthias Klumpp',

+            '--msgid-bugs-address=appstream@lists.freedesktop.org'

+        ]

+    )

+else

+i18n.gettext(as_gettext_domain,

     preset : 'glib',

-    data_dirs: [join_paths(source_root, 'data')],

+    data_dirs: [join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'data', 'its')],

     args: [

         '--default-domain=' + as_gettext_domain,

         '--from-code=UTF-8',

@@ -12,6 +26,7 @@ i18n_result = i18n.gettext(as_gettext_do

         '--msgid-bugs-address=appstream@lists.freedesktop.org'

     ]

 )

+endif

 run_target ('make-linguas',

     command: ['sh',

--- a/data/meson.build

+++ b/data/meson.build

@@ -17,14 +17,27 @@ metainfo_with_relinfo = custom_target('g

     command : [ascli_exe, 'news-to-metainfo', '--limit=6', '@INPUT0@', '@INPUT1@', '@OUTPUT@']

 )

-metainfo_i18n = i18n.itstool_join(

-    input:  metainfo_with_relinfo,

-    output: 'org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml',

-    mo_targets: i18n_result[0],

-    its_files: [join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'its', 'metainfo.its')],

-    install: true,

-    install_dir: metainfo_dir,

-)

+if meson.version().version_compare('>=0.60')

+    metainfo_i18n = i18n.itstool_join(

+	input:  metainfo_with_relinfo,

+	output: 'org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml',

+	mo_targets: i18n_result[0],

+	its_files: [join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'its', 'metainfo.its')],

+	install: true,

+	install_dir: metainfo_dir,

+    )

+else

+    # generates XML with mangled description markup tags, but better than nothing...

+    metainfo_i18n = i18n.merge_file (

+        input:  metainfo_with_relinfo,

+        output: 'org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml',

+        type: 'xml',

+        data_dirs: [meson.current_source_dir()],

+        po_dir: join_paths (source_root, 'po'),

+        install: true,

+        install_dir: metainfo_dir

+    )

+endif

 test('as-validate_metainfo.cli',

     ascli_exe,

--- a/docs/api/meson.build

+++ b/docs/api/meson.build

@@ -21,12 +21,22 @@ glib.gtkdoc (

 gtk_doc_root = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('datadir'), 'gtk-doc', 'html')

 # we need to install the empty dir, as the gtkdoc generation happens last

 # and a symlink target must exist first.

-install_emptydir(join_paths(get_option('prefix'), as_api_doc_target_dir))

-install_symlink(

-    'appstream',

-    pointing_to: '..' / '..' / '..' / as_api_doc_target_dir,

-    install_dir: gtk_doc_root

-)

+if meson.version().version_compare('>=0.60')

+    install_emptydir(join_paths(get_option('prefix'), as_api_doc_target_dir))

+    install_symlink(

+	'appstream',

+	pointing_to: '..' / '..' / '..' / as_api_doc_target_dir,

+	install_dir: gtk_doc_root

+    )

+else

+    meson.add_install_script ('sh', '-c',

+                          'mkdir -p $DESTDIR@0@ && ln -sf ../../../@1@ $DESTDIR/@2@'

+                          .format(gtk_doc_root,

+                                  as_api_doc_target_dir,

+                                  join_paths(gtk_doc_root, 'appstream'))

+    )

+endif

+

 #

 # Build API documentation for libappstream-compose,