Re: [PATCH] meson: vhost-user-gpu/virtiofsd: use absolute path

[Marc Hartmayer]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 12:23 PM +0100, Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com> 
wrote:
> The option `libexecdir` is relative to `prefix` (see
> https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html), so we have to be aware
> of this when creating 50-qemu-gpu.json and
> 50-qemu-virtiofsd.json. Otherwise, tools like libvirt will not be able
> to find the executable.
>
> Fixes: 16bf7a3326d8 ("configure: move directory options from config-host.mak 
> to meson")
> Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  contrib/vhost-user-gpu/meson.build | 2 +-
>  tools/virtiofsd/meson.build        | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/vhost-user-gpu/meson.build 
> b/contrib/vhost-user-gpu/meson.build
> index 37ecca13cafb..c487ca72c1ff 100644
> --- a/contrib/vhost-user-gpu/meson.build
> +++ b/contrib/vhost-user-gpu/meson.build
> @@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ if 'CONFIG_TOOLS' in config_host and 'CONFIG_VIRGL' in 
> config_host \
>
>    configure_file(input: '50-qemu-gpu.json.in',
>                   output: '50-qemu-gpu.json',
> -                 configuration: { 'libexecdir' : get_option('libexecdir') },
> +                 configuration: { 'libexecdir' : get_option('prefix') / 
> get_option('libexecdir') },
>                   install_dir: qemu_datadir / 'vhost-user')
>  endif
> diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/meson.build b/tools/virtiofsd/meson.build
> index e1a4dc98d9ec..17edecf55c0a 100644
> --- a/tools/virtiofsd/meson.build
> +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/meson.build
> @@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ executable('virtiofsd', files(
>
>  configure_file(input: '50-qemu-virtiofsd.json.in',
>                 output: '50-qemu-virtiofsd.json',
> -               configuration: { 'libexecdir' : get_option('libexecdir') },
> +               configuration: { 'libexecdir' : get_option('prefix') / 
> get_option('libexecdir') },
>                 install_dir: qemu_datadir / 'vhost-user')
> -- 
> 2.25.4
>
>

It’s probably not the best way to fix it, but at least a good hint
what’s wrong :)

-- 
Kind regards / Beste Grüße
   Marc Hartmayer

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