build: Move variant location builder to build-aux

And make sure to use the path of the script returned by
`find_program()`, instead of using `files()`.

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/data/gen_locations_variant.py b/build-aux/meson/gen_locations_variant.py
index e256502..e256502 100755
--- a/data/gen_locations_variant.py
+++ b/build-aux/meson/gen_locations_variant.py
diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
index a0f2bc4..5e04c29 100644
--- a/data/meson.build
+++ b/data/meson.build
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@ if xmllint.found()
        ])
 endif
 
-gen_locations_variant = find_program('gen_locations_variant.py')
-
 if pylint.found()
-  test('pylint-gen-locations-variant', pylint, args: pylint_flags + files([ 'gen_locations_variant.py' ]))
+  test('pylint-gen-locations-variant',
+    pylint,
+    args: [
+      pylint_flags,
+      gen_locations_variant.full_path(),
+    ],
+  )
 endif
 
 # The generated file is architecture dependent (i.e. host endianness)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ff821ea..5b9189e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ else
   enable_vala = enable_vala != 'false'
 endif
 
+gen_locations_variant = find_program('build-aux/meson/gen_locations_variant.py')
+
 subdir('data')
 subdir('libgweather')
 subdir('schemas')