compilers: Update comment about library search patterns

pull/5271/head
Nirbheek Chauhan 6 years ago
parent 8a2c2c9fca
commit 825363fa87
  1. 6
      mesonbuild/compilers/c.py

@ -913,8 +913,10 @@ class CCompiler(Compiler):
priority
'''
stlibext = ['a']
# We've always allowed libname to be both `foo` and `libfoo`,
# and now people depend on it
# We've always allowed libname to be both `foo` and `libfoo`, and now
# people depend on it. Also, some people use prebuilt `foo.so` instead
# of `libfoo.so` for unknown reasons, and may also want to create
# `foo.so` by setting name_prefix to ''
if strict and not isinstance(self, VisualStudioCCompiler): # lib prefix is not usually used with msvc
prefixes = ['lib']
else:

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