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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 1bd5ff0..9b5d657 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1613,6 +1613,13 @@ object](#build-target-object) returned by object](#external-program-object) returned by [`find_program()`](#find_program). +*Since 0.55.0* When cross compiling, if an exe_wrapper is needed and defined +the environment variable `MESON_EXE_WRAPPER` will be set to the string value +of that wrapper (implementation detail: using `mesonlib.join_args`). Test +scripts may use this to run cross built binaries. If your test needs +`MESON_EXE_WRAPPER` in cross build situations it is your responsibility to +return code 77 to tell the harness to report "skip" + By default, environment variable [`MALLOC_PERTURB_`](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html) is automatically set by `meson test` to a random value between 1..255. diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/exe_wrapper_for_cross_built_tests.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/exe_wrapper_for_cross_built_tests.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebdd8a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/exe_wrapper_for_cross_built_tests.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +## Test scripts are given the exe wrapper if needed + +Meson will now set the `MESON_EXE_WRAPPER` as the properly wrapped and joined +representation. For Unix-like OSes this means python's shelx.join, on Windows +an implementation that attempts to properly quote windows argument is used. +This allow wrapper scripts to run test binaries, instead of just skipping. + +for example, if the wrapper is `['emulator', '--script']`, it will be passed +as `MESON_EXE_WRAPPER="emulator --script"`. |