Re: Do we still need pre-meson compatibility hacks?

[Thomas Huth]

On 25/01/2024 12.04, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 07:54, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Right now configure contains a couple hacks to preserve some of the semantics 
> > of the pre-meson build system:
> >
> > 1) emulation of ./configure by creating a build directory and a forwarding 
> > GNUmakefile (requested by Kevin)
> >
> > 2) creation of symlinks such as x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 and 
> > arm-linux-user/qemu-arm (requested by Peter)
> >
> > Neither of these are a lot of code, but if people aren't relying on them we 
> > might as well delete them. Do they have any users still?
>
> Personally I have moved away from using the old $TARGET/qemu-foo
> so I would not miss the symlinks if they went away. Can't
> speak for anybody else on that one.
>
> I suspect that "just run configure in the source tree" is still
> popular with the kind of people who don't frequently build
> QEMU, though.

I agree with Peter - I guess there are still people around who try an 
"in-tree" build, so we should keep that possibility, but the symlinks for 
the binary can go away, IMHO.

 Thomas