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authorXavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com>2022-03-21 16:42:55 -0400
committerXavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com>2022-03-24 12:27:06 -0400
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Make compilers list per subproject
Previously subprojects inherited languages already added by main project, or any previous subproject. This change to have a list of compilers per interpreters, which means that if a subproject does not add 'c' language it won't be able to compile .c files any more, even if main project added the 'c' language. This delays processing list of compilers until the interpreter adds the BuildTarget into its list of targets. That way the interpreter can add missing languages instead of duplicating that logic into BuildTarget for the cython case.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/per_project_compiler.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/per_project_compiler.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dcf47a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/per_project_compiler.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+## Per-subproject languages
+
+Subprojects does not inherit languages added by main project or other subprojects
+any more. This could break subprojects that wants to compile e.g. `.c` files but
+did not add `c` language, either in `project()` or `add_languages()`, and were
+relying on the main project to do it for them.
diff --git a/docs/yaml/functions/executable.yaml b/docs/yaml/functions/executable.yaml
index 2e57bd4..cdf764a 100644
--- a/docs/yaml/functions/executable.yaml
+++ b/docs/yaml/functions/executable.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ kwargs:
the `implib` argument.
implib:
- type: bool
+ type: bool | str
since: 0.42.0
description: |
When set to true, an import library is generated for the