Bugfix: Generated binaries should not depend on devel package paths

mesonbuild/dependencies/pkgconfig.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# Copyright 2013-2021 The Meson development team
+# Copyright 2013-2025 The Meson development team
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from functools import lru_cache
 import re
 import os
+import posixpath
 import shlex
 import typing as T
 
@@ -423,11 +424,11 @@ def _search_libs(self, libs_in: ImmutableListProtocol[str], raw_libs_in: Immutab
                 if not path_has_root(path):
                     # Resolve the path as a compiler in the build directory would
                     path = os.path.join(self.env.get_build_dir(), path)
-                prefix_libpaths.add(path)
+                prefix_libpaths.add(posixpath.normpath(path))
         # Library paths are not always ordered in a meaningful way
         #
         # Instead of relying on pkg-config or pkgconf to provide -L flags in a
-        # specific order, we reorder library paths ourselves, according to th
+        # specific order, we reorder library paths ourselves, according to the
         # order specified in PKG_CONFIG_PATH. See:
         # https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/4271
         #

unittests/internaltests.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# Copyright 2016-2021 The Meson development team
+# Copyright 2016-2025 The Meson development team
 
 from configparser import ConfigParser
 from pathlib import Path

unittests/linuxliketests.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# Copyright 2016-2022 The Meson development team
+# Copyright 2016-2025 The Meson development team
 
 import stat
 import subprocess
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ def test_pkgconfig_relative_paths(self):
         self.assertTrue(relative_path_dep.found())
 
         # Ensure link_args are properly quoted
-        libpath = Path(self.builddir) / '../relativepath/lib'
+        libpath = Path(self.builddir).parent / 'relativepath/lib'
         link_args = ['-L' + libpath.as_posix(), '-lrelativepath']
         self.assertEqual(relative_path_dep.get_link_args(), link_args)