mlog: do not squelch console output for errors

We have functionality to squelch logging, and we use this for situations
where we run a fake interpreter and then emit output. e.g. `introspect`.

It's reasonable to avoid logging your bog-standard noisy `mlog.log()`
here, but unfortunately, we also avoided logging the output of
`mlog.exception()` followed by `sys.exit(2)`, because that went through
mlog! :P Special-case this to keep on printing, even if mlog.disable()
was used -- in such a case, we really do want to emit log output no
matter what. Users need this info to ensure they have any clue why Meson
returned a non-zero exit code.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/mlog.py b/mesonbuild/mlog.py
index ae8c7a3..7080960 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/mlog.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/mlog.py
@@ -422,7 +422,13 @@ def exception(e: Exception, prefix: T.Optional[AnsiDecorator] = None) -> None:
     if prefix:
         args.append(prefix)
     args.append(str(e))
-    log(*args)
+
+    restore = log_disable_stdout
+    if restore:
+        enable()
+    log(*args, is_error=True)
+    if restore:
+        disable()
 
 # Format a list for logging purposes as a string. It separates
 # all but the last item with commas, and the last with 'and'.