PR #2527 suggests "making failing tests more strict about failing
gracefully".
To achive this, make meson exit with distinct exit statuses for meson errors
and python exceptions, and check the exit status is as expected for failing
tests.
I can't see how to write a test for this, within the current framework.
You can test this change by reverting the fix (but not the test) from commit
1a159db8 and verifying that 'test cases/failing/66 string as link target'
fails.
After PR #2662, running test case common/125 shared module/ on Cygwin gets
me:
$ ninja -C _build
ninja: Entering directory `_build'
[7/7] Linking target prog.exe.
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/6.4.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: warning: --export-dynamic is not supported for PE+ targets, did you mean --export-all-symbols?
Also, fix doc for correct version of first apperance.
Future work: Notwithstanding the hint that ld gives, these options are not
equivalent, and it's not clear we should be using it here:
--export-all-symbols is the default behaviour, and if the exports are
restricted by explicit annotations or a .def file, this option might be
overriding that...
I had trouble figuring this out in a new project without the pot and po files. Seemed like there was a build in method to generate those. I understand that I might have made a few controversial choices like using a `LINGUAS` file and creating a sub `meson.build` file. I also don't fully understand why the `GETTEXT_PACKAGE` global wasn't mentioned.
This allows for much easier cross compiler configuration for tools like
LLVM. This patch does honor the 'native' keyword, and falls back to
searching PATH if the binary name is not specified.
I'd be fine with either removing the fallback behavior, or marking it as
deprecated and removing it later.
Fixes#2921
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