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| author | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2017-10-08 17:11:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2017-10-08 17:25:08 +0300 |
| commit | 2fbc857ff4592b55acb8f4788d39c9f0fa0928dd (patch) | |
| tree | 9dc6e2584fb9710affd43b8d3031e6e858cbbf98 | |
| parent | 8b8e1ee620ad170fc32fbabc362827ed53332186 (diff) | |
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Better error message when using external libraries incorrectly. Closes #2447.
| -rw-r--r-- | mesonbuild/build.py | 6 |
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diff --git a/mesonbuild/build.py b/mesonbuild/build.py index 9837d5a..2a71b8b 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/build.py +++ b/mesonbuild/build.py @@ -640,6 +640,12 @@ class BuildTarget(Target): # in kwargs. Unpack here without looking at the exact type. if hasattr(linktarget, "held_object"): linktarget = linktarget.held_object + if isinstance(linktarget, dependencies.ExternalLibrary): + raise MesonException('''An external library was used in link_with keyword argument, which +is reserved for libraries built as part of this project. External +libraries must be passed using the dependencies keyword argument +instead, because they are conceptually "external dependencies", +just like those detected with the dependency() function.''') self.link(linktarget) lwhole = extract_as_list(kwargs, 'link_whole') for linktarget in lwhole: |