meson: require meson 0.36 and use new pic arg on static libs

Removes a meson warning and some special casing we had.

gst/printf/meson.build

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ endif
 printf_lib = static_library('gstprintf',
     printf_sources,
     include_directories : [configinc],
-    c_args : printf_args + pic_args,
+    c_args : printf_args,
     install : false,
+    pic: true,
     dependencies : [glib_dep])

libs/gst/check/libcheck/meson.build

@@ -38,4 +38,5 @@ libcheck = static_library('check',
   libcheck_files,
   include_directories : [ configinc, internal_check_h_inc ],
   dependencies : [rt_lib, mathlib],
-  c_args: gst_c_args + pic_args)
+  c_args: gst_c_args,
+  pic: true)

meson.build

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('gstreamer', 'c', 'cpp',
   version : '1.11.0.1',
-  meson_version : '>= 0.35.0',
+  meson_version : '>= 0.36.0',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
 
@@ -29,14 +29,6 @@ helpers_install_dir = libexecdir + '/gstreamer-1.0/'
 
 cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
 
-# FIXME: Meson should have a way for portably adding -fPIC when needed for use
-# with static libraries that are linked into shared libraries. Or, it should
-# add it by default with an option to turn it off if needed.
-pic_args = ['-fPIC']
-if host_machine.system() == 'windows'
-  pic_args = []
-endif
-
 # Ignore several spurious warnings for things gstreamer does very commonly
 # If a warning is completely useless and spammy, use '/wdXXXX' to suppress it
 # If a warning is harmless but hard to fix, use '/woXXXX' so it's shown once