Feature/misc meson improvements #2804

Job	Run time
build-mingw (windows-2022, mingw64)	1m 50s
build-linux (jammy, 96b_carbon)	35s
build-mingw (windows-2022, ucrt64)	1m 47s
build-macos (macos-13, gcc@11)	1m 25s
build-mingw (windows-2022, clang64)	1m 49s
build-macos (macos-13, gcc@12)	1m 5s
build-macos (macos-13)	48s
build-macos (macos-13, gcc@13)	58s
build-macos (macos-13, gcc@14)	58s
build-linux (jammy, blackpill-f401cc)	37s
build-msvc (meson, windows-2022)	1m 43s
build-linux (jammy, blackpill-f401ce)	35s
build-macos (macos-14)	22s
build-macos (macos-14, gcc@11)	57s
build-linux (jammy, blackpill-f411ce)	31s
build-macos (macos-14, gcc@12)	40s
build-macos (macos-latest)	39s
size-diff	44s
build-linux (jammy, bluepill)	33s
build-macos (macos-14, gcc@13)	39s
build-macos (macos-14, gcc@14)	45s
build-linux (jammy, ctxlink)	38s
build-linux (jammy, f072)	33s
build-linux (jammy, f3)	30s
build-linux (jammy, f4discovery)	36s
build-linux (jammy, hydrabus)	43s
build-linux (jammy, launchpad-icdi)	31s
build-linux (jammy, native)	31s
build-linux (jammy, native-uncommon)	33s
build-linux (jammy, native-st-clones)	44s
build-linux (jammy, native-riscv)	31s
build-linux (jammy, native-remote)	59s
build-linux (jammy, stlink)	30s
build-linux (jammy, stlinkv3)	38s
build-linux (jammy, swlink)	1m 37s
	29m 34s

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