On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:10:04PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 12:00, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I wonder if the problem is more fundamental than that. Passing > > stuff in --extra-cflags is done to influence the flags used to > > compile the QEMU end user binaries. Unfortunately --extra-cflags > > is also getting applied to all the meson.build feature checks. > > > > IMHO we would get a more reliable result if the meson.build > > checks were fully isolated from the cflags we used for building > > everything else, so the checks get a well understood, predictable > > environment. > > If you're using --extra-cflags to pass in "-I/path/to/libfoo/headers" > then you do want that to be used in the meson check for "do we have > libfoo", though...
For pkg-config-ized things meson lets you override those paths per-library IIRC. For the non-pkg-config-izied case, that could be an argument for specialized --extra-header-dir=PATH and --extra-lib-dir=$PATH args. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
