Pixel PurritoTFW having to deal with build systems and what looked like should be a simple fix ends up being a yak shave involving a change to the memory allocator used by the copy of Skia vendored in the #WebKit source tree.
Related: all build systems are cursed in one way or another, and it never is the good kind of being cursed.
As per usual, #MesonBuild is still the less annoying of them all, for anything that can't be done in a ≤100 LOC Makefile.