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authorJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2020-05-19 00:23:19 +0300
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Merge pull request #5986 from dcbaker/fix-tests-with-cross-binary-arguments
Fix tests with cross binary arguments
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+## Test scripts are given the exe wrapper if needed
+
+Meson will now set the `MESON_EXE_WRAPPER` as the properly wrapped and joined
+representation. For Unix-like OSes this means python's shelx.join, on Windows
+an implementation that attempts to properly quote windows argument is used.
+This allow wrapper scripts to run test binaries, instead of just skipping.
+
+for example, if the wrapper is `['emulator', '--script']`, it will be passed
+as `MESON_EXE_WRAPPER="emulator --script"`.