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authorXavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com>2020-05-07 16:58:22 -0400
committerXavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com>2020-05-11 18:02:37 -0400
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ConfigToolDependency: Don't fallback to system tool when cross compiling
The system tool is always the wrong thing to use and cause hard to debug issues when trying to link system libraries with cross built binaries. The ExternalDependency base class already had a method to deal with this, used by PkgConfigDependency and QtBaseDependency, so it should make things more consistent.
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@@ -242,6 +242,9 @@ libgcrypt_dep = dependency('libgcrypt', version: '>= 1.8')
gpgme_dep = dependency('gpgme', version: '>= 1.0')
```
+*Since 0.55.0* Meson won't search $PATH any more for a config tool binary when
+cross compiling if the config tool did not have an entry in the cross file.
+
## AppleFrameworks
Use the `modules` keyword to list frameworks required, e.g.