This will copy the file to the build directory without trying to read
it or substitute values into it.
Also do this optimization if the configuration_data() object passed to
the `configuration:` kwarg is empty, and print a warning about it.
See also: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1542
The added format argument for configure_file allows to specify the kind of
file that is treated. It defaults to 'meson', but can also have the 'cmake'
or 'cmake@' value to treat config.h.in files in the cmake format with #cmakedefine
statements.
The configure_file command raised an exception when an input was specified as a
File, because os.path.join does not take File objects directly. This patch
converts a File object to a string and adjusts the subsequent os.path.join
calls.
The same substitutions and rules as custom_target().
Also generally fix it to actually work when run in a subdir and with
anything other than absolute paths for input and output files.
We now also log a message when configuring files.
Includes tests for all this.
Add support for passing a description to configuration data
setter methods via a 'description' kwarg. The description
string will be used when meson generates the entire configure
file without a template, autoconf-style.
Nirbheek Chauhan
David Fort
Jussi Pakkanen
Joergen Ibsen
Martin Blanchard
Jan Chren (rindeal)
Bálint Aradi
Philipp Ittershagen
Tim-Philipp Müller
Tim-Philipp Müller
Elliott Sales de Andrade