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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/howtox.md | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/d-lang_n_debug.md | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/exe_wrapper_for_cross_built_tests.md | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/rpath_behavior.md | 7 |
5 files changed, 33 insertions, 4 deletions
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/howtox.md b/docs/markdown/howtox.md index abf7519..84546b7 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/howtox.md +++ b/docs/markdown/howtox.md @@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ This can be used in cases where you want a default value, but might override it later. ```meson +# Not needed on Windows! my_dep = dependency('', required : false) if host_machine.system() in ['freebsd', 'netbsd', 'openbsd', 'dragonfly'] my_dep = dependency('some dep', required : false) @@ -278,8 +279,9 @@ elif host_machine.system() == 'linux' my_dep = dependency('some other dep', required : false) endif -# Last ditch effort! -if no my_dep.found() - my_dep = meson.get_compiler('c').find_library('dep') -endif +executable( + 'myexe', + my_sources, + deps : [my_dep] +) ``` diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/d-lang_n_debug.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/d-lang_n_debug.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59f09e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/d-lang_n_debug.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +## b_ndebug support for D language compilers + +D Language compilers will now set -release/--release/-frelease (depending on +the compiler) when the b_ndebug flag is set. 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"`. diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/rpath_behavior.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/rpath_behavior.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c46f0c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/rpath_behavior.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +## rpath removal now more careful + +On Linux-like systems, meson adds rpath entries to allow running apps +in the build tree, and then removes those build-time-only +rpath entries when installing. Rpath entries may also come +in via LDFLAGS and via .pc files. Meson used to remove those +latter rpath entries by accident, but is now more careful. |