On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 18:50, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > The comment is not correct anymore, in that the usability test for > the compiler and linker are done after probing $cpu, and Meson will > redo them anyway.
The other thing this check is useful for, though, is providing a helpful error message rather than using a busted compiler for the other compile checks that configure does and then producing a confusing error message when some required-item test fails. (I think traditionally this was the GLIB_SIZEOF_SIZE_T check, but we may have put some other tests before that in the meantime.) -- PMM
