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authorJon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>2020-06-03 17:05:55 +0100
committerJon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>2020-09-20 12:57:44 +0100
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Improve description of meson wrapped custom commands
I've always found ninja reporting 'a meson_exe.py custom command' unclear and confusing. Instead say we are invoking a custom command, wrapped by meson, and why.
Diffstat (limited to 'mesonbuild/backend/backends.py')
-rw-r--r--mesonbuild/backend/backends.py30
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
index 85d5eb6..156f3bd 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
@@ -395,13 +395,30 @@ class Backend:
exe_cmd = ['mono'] + exe_cmd
exe_wrapper = None
- force_serialize = force_serialize or extra_paths or workdir or \
- exe_wrapper or any('\n' in c for c in cmd_args)
+ reasons = []
+ if extra_paths:
+ reasons.append('to set PATH')
+
+ if exe_wrapper:
+ reasons.append('to use exe_wrapper')
+
+ if workdir:
+ reasons.append('to set workdir')
+
+ if any('\n' in c for c in cmd_args):
+ reasons.append('because command contains newlines')
+
+ force_serialize = force_serialize or bool(reasons)
+
+ if capture:
+ reasons.append('to capture output')
+
if not force_serialize:
if not capture:
- return None
- return (self.environment.get_build_command() +
- ['--internal', 'exe', '--capture', capture, '--'] + exe_cmd + cmd_args)
+ return None, ''
+ return ((self.environment.get_build_command() +
+ ['--internal', 'exe', '--capture', capture, '--'] + exe_cmd + cmd_args),
+ ', '.join(reasons))
workdir = workdir or self.environment.get_build_dir()
env = {}
@@ -425,7 +442,8 @@ class Backend:
exe_wrapper, workdir,
extra_paths, capture)
pickle.dump(es, f)
- return self.environment.get_build_command() + ['--internal', 'exe', '--unpickle', exe_data]
+ return (self.environment.get_build_command() + ['--internal', 'exe', '--unpickle', exe_data],
+ ', '.join(reasons))
def serialize_tests(self):
test_data = os.path.join(self.environment.get_scratch_dir(), 'meson_test_setup.dat')