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authorDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>2018-12-19 09:44:50 -0800
committerNirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com>2019-01-14 15:11:18 +0530
commit0c8a666f58cf19c93f8586f57ab30af5cb599143 (patch)
tree701e9fb75ce2f47075f9ac27a73db66e955d265f
parent10bd41d564bf3366bd0eda5789e2b7e637c9b922 (diff)
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msetup: Give a nice error message if cmd_line.txt cannot be read
As would happen if someone tried to manually call meson --wipe on a directory configured with a version < 0.49.0
-rw-r--r--mesonbuild/msetup.py9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/msetup.py b/mesonbuild/msetup.py
index f9a5e1c..63014f1 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/msetup.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/msetup.py
@@ -62,8 +62,13 @@ class MesonApp:
# restore that file if anything bad happens. For example if
# configuration fails we need to be able to wipe again.
filename = coredata.get_cmd_line_file(self.build_dir)
- with open(filename, 'r') as f:
- content = f.read()
+ try:
+ with open(filename, 'r') as f:
+ content = f.read()
+ except FileNotFoundError:
+ raise MesonException(
+ 'Cannot find cmd_line.txt. This is probably because this '
+ 'build directory was configured with a meson version < 0.49.0.')
coredata.read_cmd_line_file(self.build_dir, options)