Re: [DRAFT PATCH 000/143] Meson integration for 5.2

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/08/20 10:49, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> This the more or less final version of the Meson conversion.  Due to
>> the sheer size of the series you have been CCed only on the cover
>> letter.
>
> Does this work with actually-released versions of Meson yet?
> I am still not very enthusiastic about the prospect of having
> to carry around an entire build system in a submodule. That
> still seems to me to be living closer to the bleeding edge
> than I would like...

Yes it works with 0.55.0, with only a few warnings about possible future
incompatibility.  Those will be fixed in 0.56.0, where the feature was
stabilized without introducing any incompatibility.

Carrying around Meson in a submodule was mostly done to let QEMU build
transparently on older distros.  Removing it is easy (though it would
involve modifying the docker files to install the latest meson, so
whatever you throw out of the door comes back through the window).

Paolo