installation.sgml says our minimum meson version is 0.54, but it's silent on what the minimum ninja version is. What RHEL8 supplies doesn't work for me:
$ meson setup build ... Found ninja-1.8.2 at /usr/bin/ninja ninja: error: build.ninja:7140: multiple outputs aren't (yet?) supported by depslog; bring this up on the mailing list if it affects you WARNING: Could not create compilation database. That's not a huge problem in itself, but I think we should figure out what's the minimum version that works, and document that. regards, tom lane