mesonbuild/meson

Validate and warn about unknown systems and CPU families in cross files

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#3,751 opened on Jun 18, 2018

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Description

CPU family and system names are a "common contract" between build files from different projects, which is why we document them.

If people use an unknown system or cpu family in a cross file, we should warn and encourage them to report it to us so we can maintain a stable and known ABI for build files.

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Inspect the cross file parsing code in mesonbuild and add a warning for unknown cpu family and system values.
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python
Domain
build system
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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PythonMeson build system
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80