Remove get_configtool_variable()

This also makes it more consistent with get_pkgconfig_variable() which
always return empty value instead of failing when the variable does not
exist. Linking that to self.required makes no sense and was never
documented any way.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreterobjects.py b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreterobjects.py
index a76a0cbd9..46b4cc1e5 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreterobjects.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreterobjects.py
@@ -506,7 +506,13 @@ class DependencyHolder(ObjectHolder[Dependency]):
     @noKwargs
     @typed_pos_args('dependency.get_config_tool_variable', str)
     def configtool_method(self, args: T.Tuple[str], kwargs: TYPE_kwargs) -> str:
-        return self.held_object.get_configtool_variable(args[0])
+        from ..dependencies.configtool import ConfigToolDependency
+        if not isinstance(self.held_object, ConfigToolDependency):
+            raise InvalidArguments(f'{self.held_object.get_name()!r} is not a config-tool dependency')
+        return self.held_object.get_variable(
+            configtool=args[0],
+            default_value='',
+        )
 
     @FeatureNew('dependency.partial_dependency', '0.46.0')
     @noPosargs