nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/meson/allow-dirs-outside-of-prefix.patch
Jan Tojnar fe73013e7d
meson: allow dirs outside of prefix
Upstream insists on not allowing bindir and other dir options
outside of prefix for some reason:

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2561

We remove the check so multiple outputs can work sanely.
2018-03-22 07:33:49 +01:00

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--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -266,18 +266,13 @@
'''
if option.endswith('dir') and os.path.isabs(value) and \
option not in builtin_dir_noprefix_options:
- # Value must be a subdir of the prefix
# commonpath will always return a path in the native format, so we
# must use pathlib.PurePath to do the same conversion before
# comparing.
- if commonpath([value, prefix]) != str(PurePath(prefix)):
- m = 'The value of the {!r} option is {!r} which must be a ' \
- 'subdir of the prefix {!r}.\nNote that if you pass a ' \
- 'relative path, it is assumed to be a subdir of prefix.'
- raise MesonException(m.format(option, value, prefix))
- # Convert path to be relative to prefix
- skip = len(prefix) + 1
- value = value[skip:]
+ if commonpath([value, prefix]) == str(PurePath(prefix)):
+ # Convert path to be relative to prefix
+ skip = len(prefix) + 1
+ value = value[skip:]
return value
def init_builtins(self, options):