D lang compilers have an option -release (or similar) which turns off
asserts, contracts, and other runtime type checking. This patch wires
that up to the b_ndebug flag.
Fixes#7082
We automatically convert that to use sys.executable now which is
always available on all platforms (because we're running with it).
On some platforms like NetBSD, `python` doesn't exist, and you must
use a specific python version. On most other distros, `python` is
Python 2, and we don't want to depend on that.
Closes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/695
All these scripts were being used as `find_program()`, so we do not
lose any test coverage by doing this.
The ninja backend uses the '/MDd' switch when the tests are run, which
results in LNK4098 error, because the generator does not use the same
version of the Windows runtime library.
* Use the env variable to $PATH is searched instead of hardcoded
* Enables a local python build to take priority over system python build
as commonly used by tools like virtualenv.
Jussi Pakkanen
Dylan Baker
Nirbheek Chauhan
Igor Gnatenko
Nicolas Schneider
Kyle Manna