meson: apply defaults if /etc/login.defs doesn't exist

Apply defaults for system_{uid,gid}_max even if the /etc/login.defs file
doesn't exist (e.g. in Clear Linux with no changes).

awk returns an empty string in case the file doesn't exist, causing meson to
fail in to_int(). So set the default if output is empty. This makes the BEGIN{}
blocks unnecessary, so remove them.

(cherry picked from commit 2f62cf35)