> -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com> > Sent: 23 September 2020 12:03 > To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > Cc: Paul Durrant <p...@xen.org>; Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>; > Ian Jackson > <i...@xenproject.org>; Wei Liu <w...@xen.org> > Subject: [XEN PATCH] tools: Fix configure of upstream QEMU > > QEMU as recently switch its build system to use meson and the > ./configure step with meson is more restrictive that the step used to > be, most installation path wants to be within prefix, otherwise we > have this error message: > > ERROR: The value of the 'datadir' option is '/usr/share/qemu-xen' which > must be a subdir of the > prefix '/usr/lib/xen'. > > In order to workaround the limitation, we will set prefix to the same > one as for the rest of Xen installation, and set all the other paths. > > For reference, a thread in qemu-devel: > "configure with datadir outside of --prefix fails with meson" > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20200918133012.gh2...@perard.uk.xensource.com/t/ > > And an issue in meson: > "artificial limitation of directories (forced to be in prefix)" > https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2561 > > Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com> >
Tested-by: Paul Durrant <p...@xen.org>
