Re: [PATCH] meson: Clean up some dependencies regarding qemu-system

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 11:22, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Paolo,
>
> On 12/17/22 14:28, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > These are wrong.  qemu-bridge-helper, virtiofsd, qemu-storage-daemon
> > and qemu-keymap *are* tools; if they fail to build due to any
> > dependencies, or due to other compilation issues, you need to add
> > tests to meson.build and check for the cause of the issues.
>
> No doubt, those are *tools*.
> But aren't those only required when you run system- and/or user-emulation?
>
> Looking at the packaging of qemu in debian:
>
> qemu-system-common debian package consists of thse *tools*:
>    qemu-bridge-helper, vhost-user-gpu, virtfs-proxy-helper, virtiofsd
>
> qemu-utils debian package consists of the *utilities*:
>    qemu-img, qemu-io, qemu-nbd
>
> IMHO this categorization makes sense.

Possibly, but it's not the categorization we use upstream,
which splits our binaries into three groups:
 * system-emulation binaries (qemu-system-arm, etc)
 * usermode-emulation binaries (qemu-arm, etc)
 * tools (everything else)

(I think the guest-agent may be a fourth group.)

thanks
-- PMM