Currently, giscanner and the gicompiler paths are only scanned via pkg-config
if they are first found in the host path.
Add a else statement to fix this oversite.
Currently, meson hard codes the paths of these binaries which results in
cross-compiled environments to run the host versions of these tools.
However, GObject-introspection provides the appropriate paths to these
utilities via pkg-config
find_program is needed in the case g-i is built as a subproject. If
g-ir-scanner or g-ir-compiler are in the build or source directory use those.
If they aren't found in the source directory, use the results from pkg-config.
This allows users to disable writing out the inbuilt variables to
the pkg-config file as they might actualy not be required.
One reason to have this is for architecture-independent pkg-config
files in projects which also have architecture-dependent outputs.
For example : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/issues/269Fixes#4011
When subdir is '/foo/bar' and prefix '/foo' it was returning '/bar',
which is an absolute path. It was then constructing '-L${prefix}//bar'
with bogus double slash.
When subdir is '/fooo/bar' and prefix '/foo' it was returning 'o/bar'.
Currently PkgConfig takes language as a keyword parameter in position 3,
while the others take it as positional in position 2. Because most
dependencies don't actually set a language (they use C style linking),
using a positional argument makes more sense. ExtraFrameworkDependencies
is even more different, and duplicates some arguments from the base
ExternalDependency class.
For later changes I'm planning to make having all of the dependencies
use the same signature is really, really helpful.
declare_dependencies
This allows dependencies declared in subprojects to set variables, and
for those variables to be accessed via the get_variable method, just
like those from pkg-config and cmake. This makes it easier to use
projects from subprojects in a polymorphic manner, lowering the
distinction between a subproject and an external dependency every
further.
is_samepath better reflects the nature of this function--that files
and directories can be compared.
Also, instead of raising exceptions, simply return False when one
or both .is_samepath(path1, path1) don't exist. This is more
intuitive behavior and avoids having an extra if fs.exist() to go
with every fs.is_samepath()
When lrelease-qtN is missing, upgrade the error message from the
cryptic:
meson.build:75:4: ERROR: Tried to use not-found external program in "command"
to the meaningful:
meson.build:75:4: ERROR: qt.compile_translations: lrelease-qt5 not found
Issue found and tested with "test cases/frameworks/4 qt/"
FreeBSD uses ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig as default pkgconf search path
for non-base libraries. This commit makes that directory the default
install_dir in the pkgconfig module on FreeBSD.
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.
If the Python binary that we find doesn't return valid JSON when asked to run a
small script, show the command being ran and stdout/stderr in meson-log.txt.
Fixes: #5914
Stéphane Cerveau
Adam Duskett
Rohan Garg
Dylan Baker
Nirbheek Chauhan
Michael Hirsch, Ph.D
Xavier Claessens
Eli Schwartz
Daniel Mensinger
Michael Brockus
Marc Herbert
Olexa Bilaniuk
Mathieu Duponchelle
Jussi Pakkanen
Ryan Lucia
Wolfgang Stöggl
sghctoma
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Ross Burton
Aleksey Gurtovoy
Simon Allen