There's no reason to allow None into the backend, it already has code to
check that all of the values of the FileMode object are None, so let's
use that, which is much simpler all the way down.
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`.
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.
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 makes use of the new convertor and validator arguments, so that we
can check that the languages passed are in fact vaild, and then convert
the native boolean into a MachineChoice internally.
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>
Xavier Claessens
Daniel Mensinger
Dylan Baker
Laurin-Luis Lehning
Paolo Bonzini