Developers often run QEMU without installing. The bundle mechanism allows to look up files which should be present in installation even in such a situation.
It is a general mechanism and can find any files located relative to the installation tree. The build tree must have a new directory, qemu-bundle, to represent what files the installation tree would have for reference by the executables. Note that this abandons compatibility with Windows older than 8 to use PathCchSkipRoot(). The extended support for the prior version, 7 ended more than 2 years ago, and it is unlikely that anyone would like to run the latest QEMU on such an old system. v8: * Pass absolute paths to get_relocated_path() (Paolo Bonzini) * Use meson introspection (Paolo Bonzini) * Drop "qga: Relocate a path emitted in the help text" as it is no longer relevant for the bundle mechanism. v7: Properly fix --firmwarepath (Daniel P. Berrangé) v6: Reuse get_relocated_path() in find_bundle() (Paolo Bonzini) v5: * Prefer qemu-bundle if it exists. (Daniel P. Berrangé) * Check install_blobs option before installing BIOSes (Paolo Bonzini) * Add common code to set up qemu-bundle to the top level meson.build (Paolo Bonzini) v4: * Add Daniel P. Berrangé to CC. Hopefully this helps merging his patch: https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-06/msg02276.html * Rebased to the latest QEMU. v3: * Note that the bundle mechanism is for any files located relative to the installation tree including but not limited to datadir. (Peter Maydell) * Fix "bridge" typo (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) v2: Rebased to the latest QEMU. Akihiko Odaki (3): cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism datadir: Use bundle mechanism module: Use bundle mechanism Paolo Bonzini (1): tests/vm: do not specify -bios option .travis.yml | 2 +- docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 2 +- include/qemu/cutils.h | 18 +++++++-- meson.build | 4 ++ pc-bios/keymaps/meson.build | 21 +++------- pc-bios/meson.build | 13 ++----- scripts/oss-fuzz/build.sh | 2 +- scripts/symlink-install-tree.py | 37 ++++++++++++++++++ softmmu/datadir.c | 22 +---------- tests/qtest/fuzz/fuzz.c | 15 -------- tests/vm/fedora | 1 - tests/vm/freebsd | 1 - tests/vm/netbsd | 1 - tests/vm/openbsd | 1 - util/cutils.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------- util/meson.build | 1 + util/module.c | 1 - 17 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-) create mode 100755 scripts/symlink-install-tree.py -- 2.32.1 (Apple Git-133)
