Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:35 PM Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > The latter feels redundant, but the former feels worthwhile as long as we > keep a wrapper cnofigure script around. > > It seems like we're not far off being able to do a build with the normal > sequence of > > meson setup build > mes

Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-25 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 08:54:09AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the > semantics of the pre-meson build system: > > 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding > GNUmakefile (requested by Kevin) > > 2)

Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 2:02 PM Michael Tokarev wrote: > Heh. I still use `make qemu-system-arm` (or `ninja qemu-system-arm`), but > only > because I haven't followed closely what's the "right" target to use. I don't > care much which target it is exactly, but guess this is some info which need

Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
25.01.2024 14:04, Peter Maydell : On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 07:54, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the semantics of the pre-meson build system: 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding GNUmakefile (requested

Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-25 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 25.01.2024 um 08:54 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben: > Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the > semantics of the pre-meson build system: > > 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding > GNUmakefile (requested by Kevin) I occasionally s

Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-25 Thread Thomas Huth
On 25/01/2024 12.04, Peter Maydell wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 07:54, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the semantics of the pre-meson build system: 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding GNUmakefile (r

Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-25 Thread Peter Maydell
On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 07:54, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the semantics > of the pre-meson build system: > > 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding > GNUmakefile (requested by Kevin) > > 2) creation

Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

2024-01-24 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the semantics of the pre-meson build system: 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding GNUmakefile (requested by Kevin) 2) creation of symlinks such as x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 and arm-linux-