This replaces the absolute hack of using
```
install_subdir('nonexisting', install_dir: 'share')
```
which requires you to make sure you don't accidentally or deliberately
have a completely different directory with the same name in your source
tree that is full of files you don't want installed. It also avoids
splitting the name in two and listing them in the wrong order.
You can also set the install mode of each directory component by listing
them one at a time in order, and in fact create nested structures at
all.
Fixes#1604
Properly fixes#2904
Currently, EnvironmentVariablesObject is a strange
holder-that's-not-a-holder. This has implicaitons for things that expect
to get an EnvironmentVariables object, as we can't automatically
unholder it, and instead have to to manually do so. Now we can
automatically unholder it, which makes everything much nicer.
This commit introduces a new type of `HoldableObject`: The
`SecondLevelHolder`. The primary purpose of this class is
to handle cases where two (or more) `HoldableObject`s are
stored at the same time (with one default object). The
best (and currently only) example here is the `BothLibraries`
class.
As a side-effect from #8885 `find_program()` returns now `Executable`
objects when `meson.override_find_program` is called with an
executable target. To resolve this conflict the missing methods
from `ExternalProgram` are added to `BuildTarget`.
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.
Add a method to downgrade an option to disabled if it is not used.
This is useful to avoid unnecessary search for dependencies;
for example
dep = dependency('dep', required: get_option('feature').disable_auto_if(not foo))
can be used instead of the more verbose and complex
if get_option('feature').auto() and not foo then
dep = dependency('', required: false)
else
dep = dependency('dep', required: get_option('feature'))
endif
or to avoid unnecessary dependency searches:
dep1 = dependency('dep1', required: get_option('foo'))
# dep2 is only used together with dep1
dep2 = dependency('dep2', required: get_option('foo').disable_auto_if(not dep1.found()))
```
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add a method to perform a logical AND on a feature object. The method
also takes care of raising an error if 'enabled' is ANDed with false.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This method simplifies the conversion of Feature objects to booleans.
Often, one has to use the "not" operator in order to treat "auto"
and "enabled" the same way.
"allowed()" also works well in conjunction with the require method that
is introduced in the next patch. For example,
if get_option('foo').require(host_machine.system() == 'windows').allowed() then
src += ['foo.c']
config.set10('HAVE_FOO', 1)
endif
can be used instead of
if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
if get_option('foo').enabled()
error('...')
endif
endif
if not get_option('foo').disabled() then
src += ['foo.c']
config.set10('HAVE_FOO', 1)
endif
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Custom objects returned by modules must be subclass of ModuleObject and
have the state argument in its methods.
Add MutableModuleObject base class for objects that needs to be deep
copied on assignation.
The only advantage they have is they have the interpreter in arguments,
but it's already available as self.interpreter. We should discourage
usage of the interpreter API and rely on ModuleState object instead in
the future.
This also lift the restriction that a module method cannot add build
targets, but that was not enforced for snippet methods anyway (and some
modules were doing it) and it's really loose restriction as it should
check for many other things if we wanted to make it consistent.
Christian Clauss
Eli Schwartz
Daniel Mensinger
Dylan Baker
Tristan Partin
Paolo Bonzini
Xavier Claessens