From fa22ceec7035645f2f3385dcdee52149e745da35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:38:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] linkers: better reporting of command failures

Use join_args to ensure that commands are rendered correctly and with
less code.
---
 mesonbuild/linkers/detect.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/linkers/detect.py b/mesonbuild/linkers/detect.py
index 31f6ddc74203..6248ac940c02 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/linkers/detect.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/linkers/detect.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 from ..mesonlib import (
     EnvironmentException, OptionKey,
-    Popen_safe, search_version
+    Popen_safe, join_args, search_version
 )
 from .linkers import (
     AppleDynamicLinker,
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@
 defaults['clang_static_linker'] = ['llvm-ar']
 
 def __failed_to_detect_linker(compiler: T.List[str], args: T.List[str], stdout: str, stderr: str) -> 'T.NoReturn':
-    msg = 'Unable to detect linker for compiler "{} {}"\nstdout: {}\nstderr: {}'.format(
-        ' '.join(compiler), ' '.join(args), stdout, stderr)
+    msg = 'Unable to detect linker for compiler `{}`\nstdout: {}\nstderr: {}'.format(
+        join_args(compiler + args), stdout, stderr)
     raise EnvironmentException(msg)