From 4c149545d679c0edb76be66d453a460bdc110911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:43:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] message: Allow bool

It has always been working even if not documented and there is no reason
to not accept it. However, change "True/False" to "true/false" to be
consistent with meson language.

Fixes: #9436
---
 docs/yaml/functions/message.yaml      | 6 +++---
 mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/yaml/functions/message.yaml b/docs/yaml/functions/message.yaml
index d4ab085a820c..7ced8495d782 100644
--- a/docs/yaml/functions/message.yaml
+++ b/docs/yaml/functions/message.yaml
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ description: This function prints its argument to stdout.
 
 posargs:
   text:
-    type: str
-    description: The message to print
+    type: str | int | bool | list[str | int | bool] | dict[str | int | bool]
+    description: The message to print. Before *0.54.0* only strings was accepted.
 
 varargs:
   name: more_text
   since: 0.54.0
-  type: str
+  type: str | int | bool | list[str | int | bool] | dict[str | int | bool]
   description: Additional text that will be printed separated by spaces.
diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
index bbe89fa3f34b..fd00e708166f 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
@@ -103,12 +103,12 @@ def stringifyUserArguments(args, quote=False):
     elif isinstance(args, dict):
         return '{%s}' % ', '.join(['{} : {}'.format(stringifyUserArguments(k, True), stringifyUserArguments(v, True)) for k, v in args.items()])
     elif isinstance(args, bool):
-        pass # bools are a type of int, make this fallthrough to the error case
+        return 'true' if args else 'false'
     elif isinstance(args, int):
         return str(args)
     elif isinstance(args, str):
         return f"'{args}'" if quote else args
-    raise InvalidArguments('Function accepts only strings, integers, lists, dictionaries and lists thereof.')
+    raise InvalidArguments('Function accepts only strings, integers, bools, lists, dictionaries and lists thereof.')
 
 class Summary:
     def __init__(self, project_name, project_version):