Sometimes, distros want to configure a project so that it does not
use any bundled library. In this case, meson.build might want
to do something like this, where slirp is a combo option
with values auto/system/internal:
slirp = dependency('', required: false)
if get_option('slirp') != 'internal'
slirp = dependency('slirp',
required: get_option('slirp') == 'system')
endif
if not slirp.found()
slirp = subproject('libslirp', ...) .variable('...')
endif
and we cannot use "fallback" because the "system" value should never
look for a subproject.
This worked until 0.54.x, but in 0.55.x this breaks because of the
automatic subproject search. Note that the desired effect here is
backwards compared to the policy of doing an automatic search on
"required: true"; we only want to do the search if "required" is false!
It would be possible to look for the dependency with `required: false`
and issue the error manually, but it's ugly and it may produce an error
message that looks "different" from Meson's.
Instead, with this change it is possible to achieve this effect in an
even simpler way:
slirp = dependency('slirp',
required: get_option('slirp') != 'auto',
allow_fallback: get_option('slirp') == 'system' ? false : ['slirp', 'libslirp_dep'])
The patch also adds support for "allow_fallback: true", which is
simple and enables automatic fallback to a wrap even for non-required
dependencies.
Force_fallback is not an interpreter keyword argument, and there
is no reason to handle it as one since it is not used anywhere
else (and in fact is explicitly ignored by get_dep_identifier).
Use a Python keyword argument instead, which makes the code
simpler.
Automatic fallback to subprojects is complicated and should be
pointed out outside the "fallback" keyword argument. It is also
surprising that fallback to a subproject will not happen if
override_dependency has already been used with the request
dependency. Document all this.
Just saying "it failed" is accurate, but not useful to helping someone
figure out why it failed. Giving them the stdout and stderr (like we
might with compilers) should help people resolve the issue.
Fixes: #7173
Currently if you change the `choices` field in the meson_options.txt
file, no update will be done until `meson setup --wipe` is called. Now
if the choices change then the options will be properly merged.
If the currently select value is still valid it is guaranteed to be
kept, if it is now invalid the new default value will be used and a
warning will be printed.
Fixes#7386
`pathlib.Path.glob()` also returns directories that match source
filenames (i.e. a directory named `test.h/`), but `clang-format` and
`clang-tidy` fail when handed a directory. We manually skip calling
`clang-format` and `clang-tidy` on those directories.
This is required to make the various keys in the [user options] section
work the same as they do in the meson_options.txt file, where we don't
have any rules about case sensitivity.
There is some risk here. Someone may be relying on this lower by default
behavior, and this could break their machine files.
Fixes#7731
Projects that specify b_pie=true clutter build logs with the warning:
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]
No option is needed to produce PIE binaries because ld64 is making PIE
executables on 10.7 and above by default, as documented in ld(1).
Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
The implementation of the link variant was what should have been the
compiler variant, and there was no valid compiler variant, which meant
it was getting C code.
This abstraction is really useful, and most compilers could use it
(including D). It also will allow the Gnu mixins to work properly
without the CLikeCompiler in their mro.
Xavier Claessens
Daniel Mensinger
Michele Dionisio
Jussi Pakkanen
Camilo Celis Guzman
Sahnvour
Paolo Bonzini
Dylan Baker
Vinson Lee
Bernd Busse
Roman Bolshakov
Oskar Sigvardsson
Nirbheek Chauhan
Vili Väinölä