Some compilers try very had to pretend they're another compiler (ICC
pretends to be GCC and Linux and MacOS, and MSVC on windows), Clang
behaves much like GCC, but now also has clang-cl, which behaves like MSVC.
This method provides an easy way to determine whether testing for MSVC
like arguments `/w1234` or gcc like arguments `-Wfoo` are likely to
succeed, without having to check for dozens of compilers and the host
operating system, (as you would otherwise have to do with ICC).
Hotdoc really wants internal links to point to the .md files instead of
the generated names. Which makes sense, as we're currently relying on
the fact that meson only generated .html pages.
Including the following that has come up several times recent:
- How to use codegen for headers (that each target that uses the header
needs the object in it's sources)
- Using custom_targets with multiple outputs
When dependency(), find_library(), find_program(), or
python.find_installation() return a not-found object and disabler is
true, they return a Disabler object instead.
Remove the code responsible for implicitly compressing manpages as .gz
files. It has been established that manpage compression is a distro
packager's task, with existing distros already having their own
implementations of compression.
Fixes#4330
It is sometimes important to be able to build projects offline, in that
case subproject tarballs and patches could be shipped directly within
the project's repository.
meson.add_dist_script, introduced in #3906, did not accept any arguments
other than script name. Since all other meson.add_*_script methods
do accept args, this makes the dist script accept them as well.
Autotools will add endianess to the name of the architecture in some
cases (such as ppc64le vs ppc64) meson doesn't do this. It's worth
noting this in the documentation.
gtk-doc for autotools has the concept of module version, that is used to define
the module install path and the devhelp2 basename.
Add a `module_version` parameter to gnome.gtkdoc to replicate the same behavior.
Updated the test checking that the install_dir is properly computed (if not
passed), and that the .devhelp2 file has proper name.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-doc/blob/GTK_DOC_1_29/buildsystems/autotools/gtk-doc.make#L269
Thanks to PR #3483, set_variable can be used to assign array values.
However, the fact that it cannot be used for arrays before 0.46.1 needs
a mention in the documentation, since otherwise users can get unexpected
dependencies on later meson versions.
Iñigo Martínez
Jussi Pakkanen
Dylan Baker
Mathieu Duponchelle
Nirbheek Chauhan
Stian Selnes
Phillip Cao
Luca Weiss
xiannox
Xavier Claessens
Nicole Mazzuca
Kostiantyn Ponomarenko
Michał Górny
Jon Turney
TingPing
Will Thompson
Cristian Molina
Jan Tojnar
Mike Gilbert
Salamandar
Ari Vuollet
ePirat
Alexey Brodkin
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Bruce Richardson