On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 03:13:18PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Meson supports an "uninstall", so we can easily allow it to work by
> not suppressing the forwarding of it from Make to meson.
> 
> We originally suppressed this because Meson's 'uninstall' has a hole
> in it: it will remove everything that is installed by a mechanism
> meson knows about, but not things installed by "custom install
> scripts", and there is no "custom uninstall script" mechanism.
> 
> For QEMU, though, the only thing that was being installed by a custom
> install script was the LC_MESSAGES files handled by Meson's i18n
> module, and that code was fixed in Meson commit 487d45c1e5bfff0fbdb4,
> which is present in Meson 0.60.0 and later.  Since we already require
> a Meson version newer than that, we're now safe to enable
> 'uninstall', as it will now correctly uninstall everything that was
> installed.
> 
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/109
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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