We mention --cross-file in the relevant page, but the fact that
--native-file is the command line argument to use is mentioned nowhere
other than a couple of release notes and the --help text for meson
setup.
This should be described in the docs.
Strictly speaking code restructuring isn't needed, but making this PEP8
compliant results in indentation of the code that reduces the
readability. By moving the offending code on the outside of the method
call, the readability is maintained.
What happens is this:
- liba is a convenience static library
- libb is an installed static library
- libb links in liba with --link-whole
- libc links to libb
- we generate a link line with libb *and* liba, even though libb is a
strict superset of liba
This is a bug that has existed since the we stopped using link-whole to
combine convenience libraries, and to instead propagate their
dependencies up. For most linkers this is harmless, if inefficient.
However, for apple's ld64 with the addition calling `ranlib -c`, this
ends up causing multiple copies of symbols to clash (I think that other
linkers recognize that these symbols are the same and combine them), and
linking to fail.
The fix is to stop adding libraries to a target's `link_whole_targets`
when we take its objects instead. This is an all around win since it
fixes this bug, shortens linker command lines, and avoids opening
archives that no new symbols will be found in anyway.
There are two distinct cases here that need to be considered. The first
issue is https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/10723 and
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/10724, which means that Meson
can't actually generate link-whole arguments with rust targets. The
second is that rlibs are never valid candidates for link-whole anyway.
The promotion happens to work because of another bug in the promotion
path (which is fixed in the next commit).
This is generally a bad idea, e.g. it causes OSError on freebsd.
It also gets ignored by solaris and thus causes unittest failures.
The proper solution is to simply reject any attempt to set this, and log a
warning.
The install_emptydir function does apply the mode as well, and since it
is a directory it actually does something. This is the only place where
we don't reset the mode.
Although install_subdir also installs directories, and in theory it
could set the mode as well, that would be a new feature. Also it doesn't
provide much granularity and has mixed semantics with files. Better to
let people use install_emptydir + install_subdir.
Fixes#5902
Compiled languages are Meson's bread and butter, but hardly required.
This is convenient, because many test caases specifically, do not care
about testing the compiler interactions.
In such cases, we can skip doing compiler lookups which aren't used, as
they only slow down test setup.
Generally plumb through the values of get_option() passed to
install_dir, and use this to establish the install plan name. Fixes
several odd cases, such as:
- {datadir} being prepended to "share" or "include"
- dissociating custom install directories and writing them out as
{prefix}/share/foo or {prefix}/lib/python3.10/site-packages
This is the second half of #9478Fixes#10601
The name can be None if a library is not passed as a positional
argument, and the name keyword argument is not provided. We shouldn't
allow that to happen.
There are still a lot of errors here due to a mixture of really bad
design (adding extra attributes to objects), and legitimate type errors
(passing a str where a List[str] is expected). I suspect a lot of these
cases aren't hit for some reason.
The first test is checking the added support for keys as either `dict`
or `list`.
The second checks that a default value which would otherwise trigger a
value_since check doesn't, and that passing the default value explicitly
does.
`configure_file` is both an extremely complicated implementation, and
a strange place for copying. It's a bit of a historical artifact, since
the fs module didn't yet exist. It makes more sense to move this to the
fs module and deprecate this `configure_file` version.
This new version works at build time rather than configure time, which
has the disadvantage it can't be passed to `run_command`, but with the
advantage that changes to the input don't require a full reconfigure.
install_mode can include the setuid bit, which has the special property
(mentioned in the set_mode logic for minstall itself) of needing to come
last, because it "will get wiped by chmod" (or at least chown).
In fact, it's not just chown that wipes setuid, but other changes as
well, such as the file contents. This is not an issue for install_data /
custom_target, but for compiled outputs, we run depfixer to handle
rpaths. This may or may not cause edits to the binary, depending on
whether we have a build rpath to wipe, or an install rpath to add. (We
also may run `strip`, but that external program already has its own mode
restoration logic.)
Fix this by switching the order of operations around, so that setting
the permissions happens last.
Fixes https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/38682
Do to a bug in which a method, rather than an attribute, was checked
we would never detect that a target had no sources, even though we meant
to. As a result we would never actually error out when a target has no
sources. When fixing the check, I've changed the error to a warning
so that existing projects will continue to build without errors, only
warnings.
This was never meant to work, it's an implementation detail of using
`importlib.import_module` and that our modules used to be named
`unstable_` that this ever worked.
Thanks to `ModuleInfo`, all modules are just named `foo.py` instead of
`unstable_foo.py`, which simplifies the import method a bit. This also
allows for accurate FeatureNew/FeatureDeprecated use, as we know when
the module was added and if/when it was stabilized.
We're going to do more with this in the next commit, but this just adds
the information for now. This allows the next commit have 100% mv
changes for some of the modules, which makes review easier
Instead of using FeatureNew/FeatureDeprecated in the module.
The goal here is to be able to handle information about modules in a
single place, instead of having to handle it separately. Each module
simply defines some metadata, and then the interpreter handles the rest.
Also pass the setup command when rewriting --internal regenerate. This
avoids the issue where `ninja` triggers a reconfigure, and this warning
gets printed as a side effect.
This is ambiguous, if the build directory has the same name as a
subcommand then we end up running the subcommand. It also means we have
a hard time adding *new* subcommands, because if it is a popular name of
a build directory then suddenly scripts that try to set up a build
directory end up running a subcommand instead.
The fact that we support this at all is a legacy design. Back in the
day, the "meson" program was for setting up a build directory and all
other tools were their own entry points, e.g. `mesontest` or
`mesonconf`. Then in commit fa278f351f we
migrated to the subcommand mechanism. So, for backwards compatibility,
we made those tools print a warning and then invoke `meson <tool>`. We
also made the `meson` tool default to setup.
However, we only warned for the other tools whose entry points were
eventually deleted. We never warned for setup itself, we just continued
to silently default to setup if no tool was provided.
`meson setup` has worked since 0.42, which is 5 years old this week.
It's available essentially everywhere. No one needs to use the old
backwards-compatible invocation method, but it continues to drag down
our ability to innovate. Let's finally do what we should have done a
long time ago, and sunset it.
Eli Schwartz
Thomas Lange
Alf Henrik Sauge
Fabian Orccon
Dylan Baker
Xavier Claessens