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Diffstat (limited to 'mesonbuild/build.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | mesonbuild/build.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/build.py b/mesonbuild/build.py index 4123195..50abd52 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/build.py +++ b/mesonbuild/build.py @@ -533,7 +533,14 @@ class BuildTarget(): self.external_deps.append(dep) self.process_sourcelist(dep.get_sources()) else: - raise InvalidArguments('Argument is not an external dependency') + # This is a bit of a hack. We do not want Build to know anything + # about the interpreter so we can't import it and use isinstance. + # This should be reliable enough. + if hasattr(dep, 'subproject'): + raise InvalidArguments('''Tried to use subproject object as a dependency. +You probably wanted to use a dependency declared in it instead. Access it +by calling get_variable() on the subproject object.''') + raise InvalidArguments('Argument is not an external dependency.') def get_external_deps(self): return self.external_deps |