<farkuhar>
ix.io/3Ptl was how I originally thought to fix it, because xorg-server will default to using /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled if you don't choose otherwise in the meson setup.
<farkuhar>
but then I thought there must have been a reason to put the compiled keyboard maps in /var/lib ... perhaps /var is mounted locally and /usr is a network share (or vice-versa)?
<farkuhar>
anyway, xkbcomp errors and nonexistent xkb directories are not fatal to the server, so all these fixes are mostly aesthetic.