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| author | Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> | 2025-06-30 13:45:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> | 2025-12-05 08:13:08 -0800 |
| commit | f6918fe65c8b9526bc359bea8a6e8517b39b4ec5 (patch) | |
| tree | c8be5e054ecfa81dbcbe0350cab03e49328233b5 /docs | |
| parent | 79854e4b8d09744acbe2f2d2c0d43a88b9ab1dcc (diff) | |
| download | meson-f6918fe65c8b9526bc359bea8a6e8517b39b4ec5.tar.gz | |
mesonmain: mark getting a language from another subproject as broken
Currently, you can call `meson.get_compiler('c')`, if you haven't
initialized 'c' for your project, but a super-project has initialized
it. This happens because we check the wrong set of compilers (the global
list vs the per-subproject one).
Because of how fragile this is, we can mark it as broken an move on.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/getting-language-from-other-project.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/getting-language-from-other-project.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/getting-language-from-other-project.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..79f19baee --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/getting-language-from-other-project.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +## Using `meson.get_compiler()` to get a language from another project is marked broken + +Meson currently will return a compiler instance from the `meson.get_compiler()` +call, if that language has been initialized in any project. This can result in +situations where a project can only work as a subproject, or if a dependency is +provided by a subproject rather than by a pre-built dependency. |