Re: [NOTFORMERGE PATCH 1/2] configure: Use distrib meson

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 at 18:33, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
>  configure | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index f1456f6123..93735b7661 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -955,15 +955,8 @@ if $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info >= 
> (3,11))'; then
>      $mkvenv ensure --dir "${source_path}/python/wheels" \
>          'tomli>=1.2.0' || exit 1
>  fi
> -$mkvenv ensuregroup --dir "${source_path}/python/wheels" \
> -     ${source_path}/pythondeps.toml meson || exit 1
>
> -# At this point, we expect Meson to be installed and available.
> -# We expect mkvenv or pip to have created pyvenv/bin/meson for us.
> -# We ignore PATH completely here: we want to use the venv's Meson
> -# *exclusively*.
> -
> -meson="$(cd pyvenv/bin; pwd)/meson"
> +meson="$(which meson)"

Presumably the other approach would be to make the pythondeps.toml
say "on macos we need at least version X of meson" ?

Do we know what the upstream meson issue is that we're running into
with the older version on this host ?

thanks
-- PMM