21/06/2022 11:49, Bruce Richardson: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:42:55AM +0200, Stanisław Kardach wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:39 AM Bruce Richardson > > <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > Generally the "cpp" binary is not the c-plus-plus one, but the C > > > preprocessor one. Perhaps the original files are incorrect here, and > > > should > > > all refer to g++. > > > > > > /Bruce > > > > > That does make sense. I'll submit a separate patchset fixing all > > occurrences (of which there are many). > > > > As a more general note for future consideration, I notice that in meson > 0.56 the cross-file support has been enhanced with the ability to use > constants and therefore separate out prefixes.[1] > > When we get to the point where we feel we can mandate meson 0.56 upwards > for cross compilation, we should look to leverage this. It should even > allow other scripts such as test-meson-builds to auto-generate the constant > paths to the binaries on the fly, effectively allowing the use of > environment variables for these - something previously requested by Thomas.
That would be great. Cross compilation prefix is such a basic thing, we should handle it properly. > [1] https://mesonbuild.com/Machine-files.html#constants
