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| author | taz-007 <taz.007@zoho.com> | 2019-11-30 14:24:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2019-11-30 21:55:51 +0200 |
| commit | eed05c9045ae2f5a326bfd418006fa7fd76b7748 (patch) | |
| tree | 4de0dbfd105b8e64e5f340552830f738f7eac741 /mesonbuild/build.py | |
| parent | 2362bdbbf90fd9f44563f8e45891252164db7bde (diff) | |
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improve error message when old version detected
Be more explicit about the --wipe command requiring to be executed from the source dir.
Diffstat (limited to 'mesonbuild/build.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | mesonbuild/build.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/build.py b/mesonbuild/build.py index 4201e35..35bc450 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/build.py +++ b/mesonbuild/build.py @@ -2477,7 +2477,8 @@ def load(build_dir: str) -> Build: raise MesonException( "Build data file {!r} references functions or classes that don't " "exist. This probably means that it was generated with an old " - "version of meson. Try running meson {} --wipe".format(filename, build_dir)) + "version of meson. Try running from the source directory " + "meson {} --wipe".format(filename, build_dir)) if not isinstance(obj, Build): raise MesonException(load_fail_msg) return obj |