diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'mesonbuild/build.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | mesonbuild/build.py | 24 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/build.py b/mesonbuild/build.py index b610bb8..6a4f375 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/build.py +++ b/mesonbuild/build.py @@ -50,28 +50,6 @@ known_shlib_kwargs.update({'version' : True, 'name_suffix' : True, 'vs_module_defs' : True}) -backslash_explanation = \ -'''Compiler arguments have a backslash "\\" character. This is unfortunately not -permitted. The reason for this is that backslash is a shell quoting character -that behaves differently across different systems. Because of this is it not -possible to make it work reliably across all the platforms Meson needs to -support. - -There are several different ways of working around this issue. Most of the time -you are using this to provide a -D define to your compiler. Try instead to -create a config.h file and put all of your definitions in it using -configure_file(). - -Another approach is to move the backslashes into the source and have the other -bits in the def. So you would have an arg -DPLAIN_TEXT="foo" and then in your -C sources something like this: - -const char *fulltext = "\\\\" PLAIN_TEXT; - -We are fully aware that these are not really usable or pleasant ways to do -this but it's the best we can do given the way shell quoting works. -''' - def sources_are_suffix(sources, suffix): for source in sources: if source.endswith('.' + suffix): @@ -606,8 +584,6 @@ class BuildTarget(): for a in args: if not isinstance(a, (str, File)): raise InvalidArguments('A non-string passed to compiler args.') - if isinstance(a, str) and '\\' in a: - raise InvalidArguments(backslash_explanation) if language in self.extra_args: self.extra_args[language] += args else: |