Hi! I noticed that linux-user binaries, when built separately (with --enable-linux-user --disable-system) or when built as part of system build (--enable-linux-user --enable-system) differ in size and link with significantly more libraries which they shouldn't link with. libnuma, liburing, libgnutls, - that's what gets linked, just to name a few. zlib is also there which most likely shouldn't be.
Looking at the link lines I see a whole lot of various stuff being linked, thankfully with --as-needed so most of it gets dropped by the linker - these are stuff like pixman and many other things. I already mentioned this before, - to me, whole meson.build options thing is done a bit backwards: we use have_foo to mean NEED_foo, so in quite a few places these meanings are wrongly intermixed. Like, if I try a linux-user build with --enable-spice, it will tried to be used even if it makes no sense whatsoever. We could check spice and enable have_spice this way (or spice_libs=/spice_defs= etc), but only use it in those build targets which actually need it. Also, which might be a separate issue, --enable-plugins seems to be in effect for linux-user too, which result in libgmodule being linked with. Also, there's no way to build/install just the linux-user parts without, say, installing keymap files, docs are always built, and so on.. It looks like we've quite barbarian build system still, even after conversion to meson :) /mjt
