From a901024d333e439a3f0d2faa8cebb0eb881fd00e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:11:36 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] When erroring out due to invalid prefix, print the value Helps with debugging what's going wrong --- mesonbuild/coredata.py | 2 +- mesonbuild/mesonmain.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py index 72e3414ae..813d4ad70 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py +++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class UserStringOption(UserOption): if not isinstance(value, str): raise MesonException('Value "%s" for string option "%s" is not a string.' % (str(newvalue), self.name)) if self.name == 'prefix' and not os.path.isabs(value): - raise MesonException('Prefix option must be an absolute path.') + raise MesonException('Prefix option value \'{0}\' must be an absolute path.'.format(value)) if self.name in ('libdir', 'bindir', 'includedir', 'datadir', 'mandir', 'localedir') \ and os.path.isabs(value): raise MesonException('Option %s must not be an absolute path.' % self.name) diff --git a/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py b/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py index 2686818a4..53799555b 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py +++ b/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class MesonApp(): def __init__(self, dir1, dir2, script_file, handshake, options): (self.source_dir, self.build_dir) = self.validate_dirs(dir1, dir2, handshake) if not os.path.isabs(options.prefix): - raise RuntimeError('--prefix must be an absolute path.') + raise RuntimeError('--prefix value \'{0}\' must be an absolute path: '.format(options.prefix)) if options.prefix.endswith('/') or options.prefix.endswith('\\'): options.prefix = options.prefix[:-1] self.meson_script_file = script_file