On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 18:50, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The comment is not correct anymore, in that the usability test for
> the compiler and linker are done after probing $cpu, and Meson will
> redo them anyway.
The other thing this check is useful for, though, is
providing a helpful error message rather than using
a busted compiler for the other compile checks that
configure does and then producing a confusing error message
when some required-item test fails. (I think traditionally
this was the GLIB_SIZEOF_SIZE_T check, but we may have put
some other tests before that in the meantime.)
Yes but Meson does both the sanity check and the sizeof test now.
Paolo