I don't really know how to explain this briefly...
If you don't decorate this with dllimport, then a Cygwin runtime relocation
is used (a so called 'pseudo-reloc'). As the relocation offset is only 32
bits, this can fail on x86_64 if the DLL happens to be loaded more than 2GB
away from the reference.
If you decorate with dllimport, then access is indirected via a pointer,
imp_square_unsigned, which is fixed up by the loader.
We automatically convert that to use sys.executable now which is
always available on all platforms (because we're running with it).
On some platforms like NetBSD, `python` doesn't exist, and you must
use a specific python version. On most other distros, `python` is
Python 2, and we don't want to depend on that.
Closes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/695
All these scripts were being used as `find_program()`, so we do not
lose any test coverage by doing this.
because down the import dependency chain of copy.py the 'tarfile' module
was trying to import the 'copy' standard library module but was finding
the copy.py file first because it was in the current directory.
Closes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1359
Jon Turney
Nirbheek Chauhan
Mike Sinkovsky