Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 07:54, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the semantics 
> of the pre-meson build system:
>
> 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding 
> GNUmakefile (requested by Kevin)
>
> 2) creation of symlinks such as x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 and 
> arm-linux-user/qemu-arm (requested by Peter)
>
> Neither of these are a lot of code, but if people aren't relying on them we 
> might as well delete them. Do they have any users still?

Personally I have moved away from using the old $TARGET/qemu-foo
so I would not miss the symlinks if they went away. Can't
speak for anybody else on that one.

I suspect that "just run configure in the source tree" is still
popular with the kind of people who don't frequently build
QEMU, though.

thanks
-- PMM