Re: [PATCH v2 000/150] Meson integration for 5.2

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/17/20 1:24 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 17/08/20 13:02, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
>>
>> Tested-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
>>
>> On the next step, it might be good to drop configure in favor of meson
>> configuration, so configure, build and test commands would be similar to
>> libvirt:
>>
>> meson build
>> ninja -C build
>> meson test -C build
> 
> Well, there are quite a few steps needed to get there:
> 
[...]
> 
> 2) moving the rest of "make install" to Meson is even more of a
> no-brainer.  Marc-André has patches there.  They also include a
> conversion of the ROM build.

There was a discussion last year, IIRC QEMU isn't supposed to build
ROMs, the repositories are provided for the source code and licenses.

QEMU might provide a compiled ROM and describe in the commit how it
was built, but isn't responsible of providing buildsys to build all
the roms jungle.

Maybe its time to say "we kept that up to now, let's make a change".

Thoughts?