From 92075f5ef3c5df3b5e6ec4ae5189e58acb2e7c3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Neumann <Alexander.Neumann@hamburg.de>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 19:35:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] give user control of option skip_sanity_check

---
 mesonbuild/interpreter.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreter.py b/mesonbuild/interpreter.py
index 12d6cdebb..aad77b04c 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreter.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreter.py
@@ -3196,13 +3196,13 @@ external dependencies (including libraries) must go to "dependencies".''')
         return success
 
     def should_skip_sanity_check(self, for_machine: MachineChoice) -> bool:
-        if for_machine != MachineChoice.HOST:
-            return False
-        if not self.environment.is_cross_build():
-            return False
         should = self.environment.properties.host.get('skip_sanity_check', False)
         if not isinstance(should, bool):
             raise InterpreterException('Option skip_sanity_check must be a boolean.')
+        if for_machine != MachineChoice.HOST and not should:
+            return False
+        if not self.environment.is_cross_build() and not should:
+            return False
         return should
 
     def add_languages_for(self, args, required, for_machine: MachineChoice):