diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 22ad24e3..c347afa0 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # REMEMBER TO UPDATE THE SUMMARY() IN meson.build when adding options here
 
-option('accept_overflowed_buildorder', type : 'boolean', value: 'false',
+option('accept_overflowed_buildorder', type : 'boolean', value: false,
        description : 'Accept overflowed 18446744073709551615 buildorder as -1. This breaks a specification, but some RHEL 8 module builds look like that.')
 
 option('verbose_tests', type : 'boolean', value : true,
diff --git a/modulemd/meson.build b/modulemd/meson.build
index 844f1357..e927d43c 100644
--- a/modulemd/meson.build
+++ b/modulemd/meson.build
@@ -284,13 +284,15 @@ endif
 # Test env with release values
 test_release_env = environment()
 test_release_env.set('LC_ALL', 'C')
-if meson.version().version_compare('< 0.56.0')
-    project_source_root = meson.source_root()
-    project_build_root = meson.build_root()
-else
+
+if meson.version().version_compare('>=0.56.0')
     project_source_root = meson.project_source_root()
     project_build_root = meson.project_build_root()
+else
+    project_source_root = meson.source_root()
+    project_build_root = meson.build_root()
 endif
+
 test_release_env.set ('MESON_SOURCE_ROOT', project_source_root)
 test_release_env.set ('MESON_BUILD_ROOT', project_build_root)
 test_release_env.set ('TEST_DATA_PATH', project_source_root + '/modulemd/tests/test_data')