Avoid making a dependency between plugins and the build.ninja file

Basically meson detects that we pass file paths to run_command to regenerate the build.ninja file when those change

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ca7826c..632ee13 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -64,10 +64,12 @@ if build_system == 'windows'
   subproject('win-nasm')
 endif
 
+pathsep = host_machine.system() == 'windows' ? ';' : ':'
+
 subproject('orc', required: get_option('orc'))
 
 subprojects_names = []
-all_plugins = []
+all_plugins = ''
 foreach sp : subprojects
   project_name = sp[0]
   build_infos = sp[1]
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ foreach sp : subprojects
 
   if subproj.found() and build_infos.has_key('build-hotdoc', default: false)
     foreach plugin: subproj.get_variable('plugins')
-      all_plugins += plugin.full_path()
+      all_plugins += pathsep + plugin.full_path()
     endforeach
     if documented_projects != ''
       documented_projects += ','

diff --git a/scripts/generate_plugins_path.py b/scripts/generate_plugins_path.py
index 8928824..d57c60c 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/generate_plugins_path.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_plugins_path.py
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ import json
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     parser.add_argument("--builddir", help="The meson build directory")
-    parser.add_argument(dest="plugins", help="The list of plugins", nargs="+")
+    parser.add_argument(dest="plugins", help="The list of plugins")
 
     options = parser.parse_args()
 
     all_paths = set()
-    for plugin in options.plugins:
+    for plugin in options.plugins.split(os.pathsep):
         all_paths.add(os.path.dirname(plugin))
 
     with open(os.path.join(options.builddir, 'GstPluginsPath.json'), "w") as f: