mesonbuild/meson

meson.build configuration file syntax test

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#2,687 opened on Nov 25, 2017

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Description

It would be nice to provide a syntax-check functionality for meson files (like apachectl configtest).

This would allow on-the-fly syntax checks from within Emacs (via Flycheck) and other editors.

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Research direction
Examine the existing meson.build parsing logic and implement a command that runs the parser without building, similar to `apachectl configtest`.
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python
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build system
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3
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