qemu-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [PATCH 000/147] Meson integration for 5.2


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/147] Meson integration for 5.2
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:00:08 +0200



Il lun 10 ago 2020, 21:55 Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> ha scritto:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 20:49, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/08/20 21:45, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> Note that if you don't install it, you just get the previous behavior
> >> (plus a warning).  But if you want that, it would be simply "gettext" I
> >> guess.  You're using tests/vm/*bsd right?
> > Yes. Unless there's a strong reason for testing the no-gettext
> > configuration via the BSD VMs it seems like we might as well
> > just install the dependency. Silencing the warning would be
> > nice as well if the lack of it isn't actually problematic.
> >
>
> No, I think the warning is valid.  Silencing it would be predicated on
> --disable-gettext or something like that.  I'll just add the dependency.

Our usual default convention is "if the host system has feature X,
act as if --enable-X, otherwise act as if --disable-X", not
"act as if --disable-X apart from warning about it".

Fair enough. Actually Meson has the same concept of enabled/auto/disabled features so it would have been nice to just add a required option to i18n.gettext. I will just open code it to avoid waiting for the next release.

Paolo


thanks
-- PMM


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]