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| author | Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> | 2020-02-08 18:33:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> | 2020-02-12 13:33:00 +0000 |
| commit | c5a32c2afe843798d714fc9087bf55ad996b4052 (patch) | |
| tree | 646008b174c405b5d419a6a87c13b9e63b62a402 /docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | |
| parent | 7a159ff1e1e947f20a017bbc8e89c1701a9d7098 (diff) | |
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Refine behaviour of add_languages() when native: is missing
This improves the common case of a simple meson.build which doesn't
contain any 'native: true' targets to not require a native compiler when
cross-compiling, without needing any changes in the meson.build.
v2:
Do it the right way around!
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 3b07b5f..3e4cd44 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -75,12 +75,16 @@ specified is not found, Meson will halt. Since *0.47.0* the value of a [`feature`](Build-options.md#features) option can also be passed. - `native` if set to `true`, the language will be used to compile for the build - machine, if `false`, for the host machine. If omitted, the language may be - used for either. Since *0.54.0*. The default may change to `false` in a future - meson version. + machine, if `false`, for the host machine. Since *0.54.0*. Returns `true` if all languages specified were found and `false` otherwise. +If `native` is omitted, the languages may be used for either build or host +machine, but are never required for the build machine. (i.e. it is equivalent +to `add_languages(*langs*, native: false, required: *required*) and +add_languages(*langs*, native: true, required: false)`. This default behaviour +may change to `native: false` in a future meson version. + ### add_project_arguments() ``` meson |