Add pygobject overrides

This makes SoupMessageHeaders usage more pythonic and could be
expanded upon later.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libsoup/meson.build b/libsoup/meson.build
index bb4417ca..2176ce8a 100644
--- a/libsoup/meson.build
+++ b/libsoup/meson.build
@@ -289,3 +289,34 @@ if enable_introspection or enable_vapi
     )
   endif
 endif
+
+
+# We want to find the subdirectory to install our override into:
+pymod = import('python')
+python3 = pymod.find_installation('python3')
+
+get_overridedir = '''
+import os
+import sysconfig
+libdir = sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBDIR')
+if not libdir:
+  libdir = '/usr/lib'
+try:
+  import gi
+  overridedir = gi._overridesdir
+except ImportError:
+  purelibdir = sysconfig.get_path('purelib')
+  overridedir = os.path.join(purelibdir, 'gi', 'overrides')
+if overridedir.startswith(libdir): # Should always be True..
+  overridedir = overridedir[len(libdir) + 1:]
+print(overridedir)
+'''
+
+ret = run_command([python3, '-c', get_overridedir])
+if ret.returncode() != 0
+  error('Failed to determine pygobject overridedir')
+else
+  pygobject_override_dir = join_paths(get_option('libdir'), ret.stdout().strip())
+endif
+
+install_data('Soup.py', install_dir: pygobject_override_dir)