Checking how to aquire the *gettext family of symbols portably is
annoyingly complex, and may come from the libc, or standalone.
builtin dependency:
This detects if libintl is unneeded, because the *gettext family of
symbols is available in the libc.
system dependency:
This detects if libintl is installed as separate software, linkable via
-lintl; unfortunately, GNU gettext does not ship pkg-config files for
it.
Fixes#3929
mesonbuild.dependencies.__init__ exposes configtool, pkgconfig, cmake
and more in __init__.py, so there's no reason we should be tying
SystemDependency to the internal organization implementation of the
subpackage!
In the 2nd previous commit it took quite some effort to figure out that
the python module "does not exist" because of import errors while
refactoring something completely different.
For dependencies that on some systems are built into libc etc. and don't
need to be separately linked. This is distinct from "system"
dependencies which add linker args.
The dependency lookup is a lot of complex code. This refactor it all
into a single file/class outside of interpreter main class. This new
design allows adding more fallbacks candidates in the future (e.g. using
cc.find_library()) but does not yet add any extra API.
When no message is provided to assert(), it uses the ast printer to show
the condition that failed. In this case the 'not' is the first string
appended to the result, self.result[-1] would raise range error.
Remove an unused method (that didn't work before this series), and
remove the ability to pass a Generator to the GeneratedListHolder, it's
never used and it's weird and not the way Meson generally works now.
While we're here, finish the type annotations.
For qt we already have all of the necissary checking in place. Now in
the interpreter we have the same, the intrperter does all of the
checking, then passed the arguments to the Generator initializer, which
just assigns the passed values. This is nice, neat, and clean and fixes
the layering violatino between build and interpreter.
This adds a number of missing type annotations to existing functions,
and makes a few members protected instead of public, as they were never
meant to be public
Daniel Mensinger
Dylan Baker
Xavier Claessens
Eli Schwartz