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| author | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2019-03-12 17:59:04 +0530 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2019-03-14 13:04:09 +0530 |
| commit | cffd1819faaad3b01028707b01330a4d3bf593cc (patch) | |
| tree | 4354c7d1dfccc0579ccda8334e1308dfd293229f | |
| parent | 0ab833d2ce1f1211b92db5153b05f7408631eb14 (diff) | |
| download | meson-nirbheek/fix-more-dedup.tar.gz | |
compilers: Update comment about library search patternsnirbheek/fix-more-dedup
| -rw-r--r-- | mesonbuild/compilers/c.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/c.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/c.py index d4d6f6629..3548b6d19 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/compilers/c.py +++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/c.py @@ -911,8 +911,10 @@ class CCompiler(Compiler): priority ''' stlibext = ['a'] - # We've always allowed libname to be both `foo` and `libfoo`, - # and now people depend on it + # We've always allowed libname to be both `foo` and `libfoo`, and now + # people depend on it. Also, some people use prebuilt `foo.so` instead + # of `libfoo.so` for unknown reasons, and may also want to create + # `foo.so` by setting name_prefix to '' if strict and not isinstance(self, VisualStudioCCompiler): # lib prefix is not usually used with msvc prefixes = ['lib'] else: |