From 6a3e29ccd47ac7c20de1c28de8b6323fa7c77ae2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 13:27:39 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] If test exes can not be removed (because e.g. an antivirus
 program holds on to the file), just leave them behind. Closes #378.

---
 mesonbuild/compilers.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers.py b/mesonbuild/compilers.py
index ec0181efa..078e87c0b 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers.py
@@ -437,7 +437,13 @@ int someSymbolHereJustForFun;
         se = se.decode()
         mlog.debug('Program stdout:\n', so)
         mlog.debug('Program stderr:\n', se)
-        os.remove(exename)
+        try:
+            os.remove(exename)
+        except PermissionError:
+            # On Windows antivirus programs and the like hold
+            # on to files so they can't be deleted. There's not
+            # much to do in this case.
+            pass
         return RunResult(True, pe.returncode, so, se)
 
     def cross_sizeof(self, element, prefix, env, extra_args=[]):