It should build the fallback subprject with default_library=static and
override the dependency for both static=True and static kwarg not given.
Fixes: #8050.
We don't actually want to do anything with the open()ed file, just
immediately close it.
The CalledProcessError doesn't have its return returncode checked
here, even though other code with the same type of context manager does.
In the case main->subp->subsubp, if subsubp succeed to configure but
subp subsequentially fails, subsubp is still being built but its summary
was missing.
Meson already works like that, except in do_copydir() that requires
absolute destdir. Better explicitly support that instead of leaving it
undefined and unconsistent.
Xavier Claessens
Dylan Baker
Eli Schwartz
Alois Wohlschlager