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authorRafael Ávila de Espíndola <rafael@espindo.la>2018-08-19 08:19:11 -0700
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-09-03 21:24:01 +0300
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Allow override_find_program to use an executable.
With this it is now possible to do foobar = executable('foobar', ...) meson.override_find_program('foobar', foobar) Which is convenient for a project like protobuf which produces both a dependency and a tool. If protobuf is updated to use override_find_program, it can be used as protobuf_dep = dependency('protobuf', version : '>=3.3.1', fallback : ['protobuf', 'protobuf_dep']) protoc_prog = find_program('protoc')
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@@ -1529,7 +1529,9 @@ the following methods.
specifies that whenever `find_program` is used to find a program
named `progname`, Meson should not not look it up on the system but
instead return `program`, which may either be the result of
- `find_program` or `configure_file`.
+ `find_program`, `configure_file` or `executable`.
+
+ If `program` is an `executable`, it cannot be used during configure.
- `project_version()` returns the version string specified in
`project` function call.