String arguments as elements in the array passed to the link_with
argument in meson's executable() functions are not valid and will end up
causing the build file generation to file. This actually ended up
exposing a bug in meson that caused it not to report where in the
meson.build file it was failing:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/2527
The proper way to have a variable that can contain either an empty link
target or an actual link target is:
some_target = []
if some_cond
some_target = static_library(...)
endif
This way if some_cond is False, some_target gets set to [], gets passed
to executable() in the link_with array, and then gets removed by array
flattening.
This also unbreaks Xwayland builds with -Dglx=false, the thing that
originally made me notice this.
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
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