From a55a42444d0578125425c3fe64d5f8172c508f44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aneejit1 <100675750+aneejit1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 20:16:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]  Meson build writes to the source directory (issue #3507 )
 (#3508)

Don't write to source directory if files did not change

Remove writes to the source directory which cause a meson build failure
if the source directory is read-only.

https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/3508
---
 src/gen-harfbuzzcc.py | 8 ++++++--
 src/gen-hb-version.py | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gen-harfbuzzcc.py b/src/gen-harfbuzzcc.py
index b25bcc7ab..6801281a6 100755
--- a/src/gen-harfbuzzcc.py
+++ b/src/gen-harfbuzzcc.py
@@ -14,5 +14,9 @@ sources = sys.argv[3:]
 with open (OUTPUT, "wb") as f:
 	f.write ("".join ('#include "{}"\n'.format (os.path.basename (x)) for x in sources if x.endswith (".cc")).encode ())
 
-# copy it also to src/
-shutil.copyfile (OUTPUT, os.path.join (CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR, os.path.basename (OUTPUT)))
+# copy it also to the source tree, but only if it has changed
+baseline_filename = os.path.join (CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR, os.path.basename (OUTPUT))
+with open(baseline_filename, "rb") as baseline:
+	with open(OUTPUT, "rb") as generated:
+		if baseline.read() != generated.read():
+			shutil.copyfile (OUTPUT, baseline_filename)
diff --git a/src/gen-hb-version.py b/src/gen-hb-version.py
index 4fac0a0e5..06018edfc 100755
--- a/src/gen-hb-version.py
+++ b/src/gen-hb-version.py
@@ -32,5 +32,9 @@ with open (INPUT, "r", encoding='utf-8') as template:
 			.replace ("@HB_VERSION@", version)
 			.encode ())
 
-# copy it also to src/
-shutil.copyfile (OUTPUT, os.path.join (CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR, os.path.basename (OUTPUT)))
+# copy it also to the source tree, but only if it has changed
+baseline_filename = os.path.join (CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR, os.path.basename (OUTPUT))
+with open(baseline_filename, "rb") as baseline:
+	with open(OUTPUT, "rb") as generated:
+		if baseline.read() != generated.read():
+			shutil.copyfile (OUTPUT, baseline_filename)