test3-static was actually always using the shared library because that
warning was not fatal:
WARNING: Static library 'func6' not found for dependency 'func6', may
not be statically linked
The reason why the libfunc6.a wasn't found is because the prefix in the
generated pc file was not set to install dir.
In qemu, minikconf generates a depfile that meson could use to
automatically reconfigure on dependency change.
Note: someone clever can perhaps find a way to express this with a
ninja rule & depfile=. I didn't manage, so I wrote a simple depfile
parser.
According to http://testanything.org/tap-specification.html
"Any output line that is not a version, a plan, a test line, a
diagnostic or a bail out is considered an “unknown” line. A TAP parser
is required to not consider an unknown line as an error but may
optionally choose to capture said line and hand it to the test
harness, which may have custom behavior attached [...] TAP::Harness
reports TAP syntax errors at the end of a test run".
(glib gtest can generate empty lines)
The main library must come before extra libraries, because they are
likely to be dependencies of the main library that get promoted from
private to public. This was causing static link issues with glib-2.0.pc.
On illumos (and presumably Solaris, though I can't test) cc normally
points to Sun CC, which we don't support. So ensure that gcc is used
explicitly in that case.
* Do not strip static archives
Stripping static archives without more fine-grained options (e.g. `-g`)
leads to failures such as
ld: libfoo.a: error adding symbols: archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
because GNU strip removes *every* symbol in a static archive by default.
Given that static archives are not final build artifacts (unlike
executables and shared libraries), stripping them gains little and only
causes more edge case failures.
* Gentoo's portage only strips debug information:
86f211e3a5/bin/estrip (L322)
* Fedora also only strips debug information:
e9c13c6565/scripts/brp-strip-static-archive (L18)
* Debian also only does some very light stripping:
72ed1d3261/dh_strip (L374)Fixes#4138
* Add test case for static archive stripping
Instead of the DynamicLinker returning a hardcoded value like
`-Wl,-foo`, it now is passed a value that could be '-Wl,', or could be
something '-Xlinker='
This makes a few things cleaner, and will make it possible to fix using
clang (not clang-cl) on windows, where it invokes either link.exe or
lld-link.exe instead of a gnu-ld compatible linker.
Clang doesn't really like having no-undefined plus the address sanitizer, but
gcc doesn't mind. This all happens to work with clang + gnu ld, but with clang
+ apple ld this turns into a dumpster fire. Just add b_lundef=false to make
everyone happy.
@TingPing has a repository that contains a grammar for meson which is
used by linguist (GitHub), and by many editors such as Atom, VS Code,
TextMate, Sublime Text, etc. Add CI so that we notice that the
function list in it is out of date, such as https://github.com/TingPing/language-meson/pull/3
It's harder to do this generically for other syntax such as the `in`
keyword, but it's better than nothing.
This reverts the changes to the `section` key for the
buildoptions and moves the machine choice into it's
own `machine` key.
With this commit the __undocumented__ breaking change
to the introspection format (introduced in 0.51.0) is
reverted and a new key is added instead.
Instead of trying to guess whether we need py or python3, and then
falling over when whatever we guessed isn't in the path or isn't right,
just use sys.executable which should always work.
Daniel Mensinger
Jussi Pakkanen
Xavier Claessens
Marc-André Lureau
Aleksey Gurtovoy
Dylan Baker
David Seifert
David Seifert
James Hilliard
Nirbheek Chauhan
Michael Hirsch, Ph.D