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Added ability to specify targets in meson compile

It's now possible to specify targets in meson compile, which will result in building only the requested targets.

Usage: meson compile [TARGET [TARGET...]] TARGET has the following syntax: [PATH/]NAME[:TYPE]. NAME: name of the target from meson.build (e.g. foo from executable('foo', ...)). PATH: path to the target relative to the root meson.build file. Note: relative path for a target specified in the root meson.build is ./. TYPE: type of the target (e.g. shared_library, executable and etc)

PATH and/or TYPE can be ommited if the resulting TARGET can be used to uniquely identify the target in meson.build.

For example targets from the following code:

shared_library('foo', ...)
static_library('foo', ...)
executable('bar', ...)

can be invoked with meson compile foo:shared_library foo:static_library bar.