On 4/27/23 15:12, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 02:57:54PM +0200, Michal Prívozník wrote: >> On 4/27/23 14:22, Andrea Bolognani wrote: >>> This fixes cross-building in some scenarios. >>> >>> Specifically, when building for armv7l on x86_64, has_header() >>> will see the x86_64 version of the linux/kmv.h header and >>> consider it to be usable. Later, when an attempt is made to >>> actually include it, the compiler will quickly realize that >>> things can't quite work. >>> >>> The reason why we haven't hit this in our CI is that we only ever >>> install the foreign version of header files. When building the >>> Debian package, however, some of the Debian-specific tooling will >>> bring in the native version of the Linux headers in addition to >>> the foreign one, causing meson to misreport the header's >>> availability status. >>> >>> Checking for actual usability, as opposed to mere presence, of >>> headers is enough to make things work correctly in all cases. >>> >>> The meson documentation recommends using has_header() instead of >>> check_header() whenever possible for performance reasons, but >>> while testing this change on fairly old and underpowered hardware >>> I haven't been able to measure any meaningful slowdown. >>> >>> https://bugs.debian.org/1024504 >>> >>> Suggested-by: Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> >>> --- >>> meson.build | 16 ++++++++-------- >>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >> >> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com> > > Thanks! > > Do you think it's okay for me to push this now, so that it gets > included in 9.3.0, or should I rather wait until after the release? >
It's a bug fix and as such can and in fact should be merged. Michal
