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2022-02-15fix missing documentation for testsuite option in test.jsonEli Schwartz1-0/+5
stdout line matching supports count since commit 66d62a224e92c41d6012dc6c23912a965da4da8f to fail if certain output is present (count: 0) but it was never documented in the contribution guidelines.
2022-02-15pkgconfig module: allow custom variables to reference builtin directoriesEli Schwartz1-0/+31
Automatically generate additional variables and write them into the generated pkg-config file. This means projects no longer need to manually define the ones they use, which is annoying for dataonly usages (it used to forbid setting the base library-relevant "reserved" ones, and now allows it only for dataonly. But it's bloat to manualy list them anyway). It also fixes a regression in commit 248e6cf4736ef9ec636228da66c28f9be03aa74f which caused libdir to not be set, and to be unsettable, if the pkg-config file has no libraries but uses the ${libdir} expansion in a custom variable. This could be considered likely a case for dataonly, but it's not guaranteed.
2022-02-14shared module: Allow linking on AndroidNirbheek Chauhan1-5/+11
Android requires shared modules that use symbols from other shared modules to be linked before they can be dlopen()ed in the correct order. Not doing so leads to a missing symbol error: https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/201 We need to always allow linking for this. Also add a soname, although it's not confirmed that it's needed, and it doesn't really hurt if it isn't needed.
2022-02-10implement 'dist --allow-dirty' flagandy59952-0/+15
closes #9824
2022-02-10Contributing.md: fix typoAlyssa Ross1-1/+1
2022-02-09meson: Allow directory options outside of prefixJan Tojnar4-15/+27
This bring us in line with Autotools and CMake and it is useful for platforms like Nix, which install projects into multiple independent prefixes. As a consequence, `get_option` might return absolute paths for some directory options, if a directory outside of prefix is passed. This is technically a backwards incompatible change but its effect should be minimal, thanks to widespread use of `join_paths`/`/` operator and pkg-config generator module. It should only cause an issue when a path were constructed by concatenating the value of directory path option. Also remove a comment about commonpath since we do not use that since <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/commit/00f5dadd5b7d71c30bd7393d165a87f554eb92e5>. Fixes: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2561
2022-02-03docs: strongly recommend the use of SPDX instead of array of licenseDylan Baker1-9/+17
The array of licenses is not clear, where and SPDX expression using AND and OR is very clear, take for example this: `['Apache', 'GPLv2']`. What does that mean? Any Apache license you like and GPLv2? Using a valid SPDX license identifier however makes it extremely clear what is meant: `'Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only'`. It is very clear that you mean, "this is Apache 2.0, however, you can use as GPL-2.0 for the purpose of linking it into your GPL-2.0 project".
2022-02-03cmake: Deprecate CMake <3.17 supportDaniel Mensinger1-0/+4
2022-02-03cmake: Drop CMake server support and bump min. CMake to >= 3.14Daniel Mensinger1-0/+9
2022-02-02Merge pull request #9834 from bonzini/test-verbose-kwargJussi Pakkanen3-0/+21
New keyword argument `verbose` for tests and benchmarks
2022-02-02Genericise TI compiler and add MSP430 supportWilliam Toohey2-1/+12
2022-02-01cmake: add arch_independent kwargAndrea Pappacoda2-1/+10
CMake's write_basic_package_version_file has supported since version 3.14 an ARCH_INDEPENDENT option that makes it skip its architecture check in the Version file. With this patch Meson now supports it as well, and the change is also compatible with older CMake versions, as they will simply ignore the option. This also slightly changes the contents of the generated Version file when arch_independent is not set: previously, the if() needed to skip the arch check was always filled with an empty string, while CMake puts "FALSE" (or "TRUE") in it. Now, that if() will always be filled with either "False" or "True", better matching CMake's behaviour.
2022-02-01minstall: stop running ldconfig for the userEli Schwartz1-0/+5
This was a nice idea in theory, but in practice it had various problems: - On the only platform where ldconfig is expected to be run, it is really slow, even when the user uses a non-default prefix and ldconfig doesn't even have permission to run, nor can do anything useful due to ld.so.conf state - On FreeBSD, it bricked the system: #9592 - On cross builds, it should not be used and broke installing, because ldconfig may not be runnable without binfmt + qemu: #9707 - it prints weird and confusing errors in the common "custom prefix" layout: #9241 Some of these problems can be or have been fixed. But it's a constant source of footguns and complaints and for something that was originally supposed to be just "it's the right thing to do anyway, so just do it automatically" it is entirely too risky. Ultimately I do not think there is justification for keeping this feature in since it doesn't actually make everyone happy. Better for users to decide whether they need this themselves. This is anyways the case for cmake and autotools and generally any other build system, so it should not be too intimidating... Fixes #9721
2022-02-01Updated precompiled library documentationGuillaume Quenneville1-0/+8
Fix link, change wording
2022-02-01new custom dependency lookup for libdlAndrew Krasavin2-0/+19
2022-02-01interpreter: support for forcibly verbose logging of some testsPaolo Bonzini3-0/+21
Add a new keyword argument to test() and benchmark(), completing the implementation of the feature. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-01-31gnome: add documentation for new kwargsEli Schwartz1-2/+6
This was forgotten in commit bc8c938148a55910dd1bd454fc3c5e8ab7477baa -- sorry!
2022-01-31doc: fix regression that deleted all methods from the reference manualEli Schwartz1-3/+3
Regressed in commit bfb12222c3f64c4dac45fa526a355fffa74dbecd. This needs to iterate over all methods, process them, and add them to a list. Instead, it deleted all methods, processed all remaining methods, and appended them to the in-use iterator. Use a second list, instead. Fixes #9922
2022-01-31print warning when using fastyaml loaderStone Tickle1-2/+7
2022-01-31mention fastyaml loader in the docsStone Tickle1-1/+4
2022-01-31add --quiet option to genrefmanStone Tickle1-0/+4
2022-01-31add fastyaml loaderStone Tickle2-65/+171
2022-01-29docs: find_program can return the current Python3 interpreterAndrea Pappacoda1-1/+3
This was the case since 067ff7eeae26eda8edc9f7f7432f551c3e373eaa, i.e. version 0.50.0. Fixes #3856
2022-01-26docs: correct weakref typo in Reference-tables.mdArsen Arsenović1-1/+1
2022-01-26compilers/c_function_attributes: add retainArsen Arsenović1-0/+3
retain is a relatively young attribute which has proven itself useful for working with --gc-sections -z start-stop-gc.
2022-01-26Add docs for JDK system dependencyTristan Partin1-0/+14
For whatever reason, the original PR was merged without documentation.
2022-01-25docs: fix bad advice in the READMEEli Schwartz1-2/+2
Do not recommend running the 'upload' target by default in order to build the docs. That will fail with permission errors when trying to push to a repo most people don't have commit access to, and if they did have commit access it would be an even worse problem -- unpredictably overwriting the main website without any guarantee it was generated from the latest version of the docs! Plus, it does not actually work. The first thing it does is spawn an error message that required files do not exist, because the actual docs were not, in fact, built. So they cannot be uploaded either. The docs will build by default if you do not specify a non-default target. Fixes #9873
2022-01-23Contributing.md:specify max line length for docsandy59951-4/+6
I thought it would good to specify a general rule here so people can set their line wrapping appropriately. [skip ci]
2022-01-23Subprojects.md:add extra detailandy59951-9/+24
This adds a link https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html#specifying-options-per-subproject in two different places and provides an example for changing the default options. This info is partially based on a [recent discussion](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/discussions/9830) between me and @eli-schwartz [skip ci]
2022-01-23Subprojects.md:add link to is_subproject()andy59951-1/+1
2022-01-22fix broken version annotations for the new itstool_join featureEli Schwartz1-1/+1
It was not added in 0.61.0 as that was already released.
2022-01-22Merge pull request #9742 from ximion/wip/itstoolJussi Pakkanen2-0/+17
i18n: Add support for joining XML localization via itstool
2022-01-21i18n: Add support for joining XML localization via itstoolMatthias Klumpp2-0/+17
2022-01-18interpreterobjects: deprecated passing a number to configuration_data.set10Dylan Baker2-3/+12
This is currently allowed, and is used in at least a few projects. It was not intended to work or documented, but it does and since it is in use a full deprecation period must be used. A warning has also been added for values < 0, which have surprising behavior.
2022-01-17index.md:add link to GitHub Discussions sectionandy59951-5/+7
2022-01-16Subprojects.md:add single quotes around subproject and variable nameAndy Alt1-1/+1
2022-01-15gnome.genmarshal: restore the ability to pass sources as Files objectsEli Schwartz1-2/+1
It used to support: - a single string - an array of anything And as long as CustomTarget supported it too, everything worked fine. So, a `files('foo')` worked but a `files('foo')[0]` did not, which is silly... and it's not exactly terrible to use files() here, the input is literally a list of source files. Fixes building gnome-terminal Fixes #9827 Test updated by Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com>
2022-01-14docs/dep.yaml: davault -> defaultDylan Baker1-1/+1
2022-01-11link to mesa website instead of gitlabErik Faye-Lund1-1/+1
The mesa website is a bit more helpful as an introduction to the project than the gitlab-project. So it seems better to link there instead.
2022-01-10bump minimum required version of python to 3.7Eli Schwartz3-4/+11
Comment out the pending deprecation notice. It cannot be reached anymore, but is still useful for the next time we do a version bump.
2022-01-10docs: fix rust module bindgen argumentsDylan Baker1-5/+5
Fixes: 9795
2022-01-10remove the RPM moduleEli Schwartz4-18/+10
It is unmaintained, broken (frequently for long periods of time) and not really required for any meson functionality. Its purpose is to be used as a one-shot tool for creating a distro package recipe, and then deleted from your meson.build files. Due to its fragile dependency on coredata implementation details, we cannot assume it will reliably work, or continue to work, without someone who is actively willing to take responsibility for it. Even if that were to happen, this might be better off as an external script that parses introspection data. Closes #9764 Closes #9763
2022-01-10Merge pull request #9739 from mathstuf/armclang-supportJussi Pakkanen1-0/+6
Armclang support
2022-01-10Prepare release 0.61.0.0.61.0Jussi Pakkanen13-120/+139
2022-01-10add pending deprecation notice for python 3.6Eli Schwartz1-0/+13
2022-01-10Running-Meson.md: fix a broken linkx-yuri1-1/+1
2022-01-09Remove docs for ghwt that got deleted ages ago.Jussi Pakkanen2-44/+0
2022-01-07Merge pull request #9773 from annacrombie/masterJussi Pakkanen6-8/+410
Add a man page backend to refman
2022-01-06add release notes for refman man pageStone Tickle1-0/+4
2022-01-06add man page generation to buildStone Tickle1-0/+16
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