pkgconfig deps: Warn when a static library isn't found

A hard error makes this feature useless in most cases since a static
library usually won't be found for every library, particularly system
libraries like -lm. Instead, warn so the user can provide the static
library if they wish.

This feature will be expanded and made more extensible and more usable
in the future.

Closes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2785

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/run_unittests.py b/run_unittests.py
index ac627da..fd424be 100755
--- a/run_unittests.py
+++ b/run_unittests.py
@@ -1567,9 +1567,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 
     def test_pkgconfig_static(self):
         '''
-        Test that the we only use static libraries when `static: true` is
+        Test that the we prefer static libraries when `static: true` is
         passed to dependency() with pkg-config. Can't be an ordinary test
         because we need to build libs and try to find them from meson.build
+
+        Also test that it's not a hard error to have unsatisfiable library deps
+        since system libraries -lm will never be found statically.
+        https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2785
         '''
         if not shutil.which('pkg-config'):
             raise unittest.SkipTest('pkg-config not found')