Sometimes, distros want to configure a project so that it does not
use any bundled library. In this case, meson.build might want
to do something like this, where slirp is a combo option
with values auto/system/internal:
slirp = dependency('', required: false)
if get_option('slirp') != 'internal'
slirp = dependency('slirp',
required: get_option('slirp') == 'system')
endif
if not slirp.found()
slirp = subproject('libslirp', ...) .variable('...')
endif
and we cannot use "fallback" because the "system" value should never
look for a subproject.
This worked until 0.54.x, but in 0.55.x this breaks because of the
automatic subproject search. Note that the desired effect here is
backwards compared to the policy of doing an automatic search on
"required: true"; we only want to do the search if "required" is false!
It would be possible to look for the dependency with `required: false`
and issue the error manually, but it's ugly and it may produce an error
message that looks "different" from Meson's.
Instead, with this change it is possible to achieve this effect in an
even simpler way:
slirp = dependency('slirp',
required: get_option('slirp') != 'auto',
allow_fallback: get_option('slirp') == 'system' ? false : ['slirp', 'libslirp_dep'])
The patch also adds support for "allow_fallback: true", which is
simple and enables automatic fallback to a wrap even for non-required
dependencies.
Automatic fallback to subprojects is complicated and should be
pointed out outside the "fallback" keyword argument. It is also
surprising that fallback to a subproject will not happen if
override_dependency has already been used with the request
dependency. Document all this.
This is required to make the various keys in the [user options] section
work the same as they do in the meson_options.txt file, where we don't
have any rules about case sensitivity.
There is some risk here. Someone may be relying on this lower by default
behavior, and this could break their machine files.
Fixes#7731
Instead of the default ones, this is especially important when cross
compiling or when using compilers that aren't compatible with the
default ones.
squash! dependencies/hdf5: Use the actual system compilers
Those function are common source of issue when used in a subproject because they
point to the parent project root which is rarely what is expected and is a
violation of subproject isolation.
* Add preliminary support for the CompCert C Compiler
The intention is to use this with the picolibc, so some GCC flags are
automatically filtered. Since CompCert uses GCC is for linking, those
GCC-linker flags which are used by picolibc, are automatically prefixed
with '-WUl', so that they're passed to GCC.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 4e0ad66dca9de301d2e41e74aea4142afbd1da7d
Author: Sebastian Meyer <meyer@absint.com>
Date: Mon Aug 31 14:20:39 2020 +0200
remove '-fall' from default arguments, also filter -ftls-model=.*
commit 41afa3ccc62ae72824eb319cb8b34b7e6693cb67
Author: Sebastian Meyer <meyer@absint.com>
Date: Mon Aug 31 14:13:55 2020 +0200
use regex for filtering ccomp args
commit d68d242d0ad22f8bf53923ce849da9b86b696a75
Author: Sebastian Meyer <meyer@absint.com>
Date: Mon Aug 31 13:54:36 2020 +0200
filter some gcc arguments
commit 982a01756266bddbbd211c54e8dbfa2f43dec38f
Author: Sebastian Meyer <meyer@absint.com>
Date: Fri Aug 28 15:03:14 2020 +0200
fix ccomp meson configuration
commit dce0bea00b1caa094b1ed0c6c77cf6c12f0f58d9
Author: Sebastian Meyer <meyer@absint.com>
Date: Thu Aug 27 13:02:19 2020 +0200
add CompCert to meson (does not fully work, yet)
* remove unused import and s/cls/self/
fixes the two obvious LGTM warnings
* CompCert: Do not ignore unsupported GCC flags
Some are safe to ignore, however, as per
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/7674, they should not be
ignored by meson itself. Instead the meson.build should take care to
select only those which are actually supported by the compiler.
* remove unused variable
* Only add arguments once.
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
* Remove erroneous ' ' from '-o {}'.format()
As noticed by @dcbaker
* added release note snippet for compcert
* properly split parameters
As suggested by @dcbaker, these parameters should be properly split into multiple strings.
Co-authored-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
* Update add_compcert_compiler.md
Added a sentence about the state of the implementation (experimental); use proper markdown
* properly separate arguments
Co-authored-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
This means that, in the common case of a simple meson.build which
doesn't contain any 'native: true' targets, we won't require a native
compiler when cross-compiling, without needing any changes in the
meson.build.
Documentation of most methods mentions method arguments enclosed in
parentheses. Two methods are an exception and we fix them here to make
the manual more consistent.
Add the ids of any target that needs to be rebuilt before running the
tests as computed by the backend, to the introspection data for tests and benchmarks.
This also includes anything that appears on the test's command line.
Without this information, IDEs must update the entire build before running
any test. They can now instead selectively build the test executable
itself and anything that is needed to run it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The -Doption=value style argument works for all builtin options,
and compiler options passed to meson. And some universal options,
have additional ways to be passed. However, base options (and compiler
options) do not have exactly the same ways of passing as universal
options.
This change adds a few pieces of information, which might get lost,
if the manual is not read serially.
[skip ci]
This is useful for automatically generated docs (doxygen, hotdoc)
with a lot of generated files that may differ with different
versions of the generator.
A common pattern in Qt5 applications is to embed translations in the
executable using the qresource system. In this case, the list of
translation files is already available in the .qrc file and there's no
good reason to duplicate this info in meson.build.
Let compile_translations optionally take a qrc input, in which case it
will go straight to generating the relevant translations and
rcc-generated .cpp, and directly return the thing users actually care
about -- the .cpp for linking.
There are a couple new users of Meson that might be worth mentioning.
502 commits later, Libvirt and QEMU have both switched!
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
- Exceptions raised during subproject setup were ignored.
- Allow c_stdlib in native file, was already half supported.
- Eliminate usage of subproject variable name by overriding
'<lang>_stdlib' dependency name.
Xavier Claessens