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Re: [PATCH 1/1] os_find_datadir: search as in version 4.2
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 1/1] os_find_datadir: search as in version 4.2 |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:19:54 +0100 |
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 00:00, Joe Slater <joe.slater@windriver.com> wrote:
>
> Always look for ../share/qemu then ../pc-bios when looking for datadir.
Could you provide some more context, please? Why is this
change useful; presumably we broke some setup in 5.0, but
what exactly ?
I'm guessing this might be a regression introduced by commit
6dd2dacedd83d12328 so I'm ccing the relevant people.
> Signed-off-by: Joe Slater <joe.slater@windriver.com>
> ---
> os-posix.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c
> index 3cd52e1e70..f77da94bf6 100644
> --- a/os-posix.c
> +++ b/os-posix.c
> @@ -82,8 +82,9 @@ void os_setup_signal_handling(void)
>
> /*
> * Find a likely location for support files using the location of the binary.
> + * Typically, this would be "$bindir/../share/qemu".
> * When running from the build tree this will be "$bindir/../pc-bios".
> - * Otherwise, this is CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR.
> + * Otherwise, this is CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR as constructed by configure.
> */
> char *os_find_datadir(void)
> {
> @@ -93,6 +94,12 @@ char *os_find_datadir(void)
> exec_dir = qemu_get_exec_dir();
> g_return_val_if_fail(exec_dir != NULL, NULL);
>
> + dir = g_build_filename(exec_dir, "..", "share", "qemu", NULL);
> + if (g_file_test(dir, G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR)) {
> + return g_steal_pointer(&dir);
> + }
> + g_free(dir); /* no autofree this time */
> +
> dir = g_build_filename(exec_dir, "..", "pc-bios", NULL);
> if (g_file_test(dir, G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR)) {
> return g_steal_pointer(&dir);
> --
> 2.17.1