Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-02 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il mer 2 set 2020, 20:45 Mark Cave-Ayland ha scritto: > On 02/09/2020 13:16, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 02/09/20 13:42, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > >> The main issues I can see are that the .exe files end up under > /msys64/qemu > >> and the ROMs end up directly under /qemu rather than in $DESTD

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 02/09/2020 13:16, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 02/09/20 13:42, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> The main issues I can see are that the .exe files end up under /msys64/qemu >> and the ROMs end up directly under /qemu rather than in $DESTDIR/share. > > This series doesn't try to change the layout; it onl

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-02 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/09/20 13:42, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > The main issues I can see are that the .exe files end up under /msys64/qemu > and the ROMs end up directly under /qemu rather than in $DESTDIR/share. This series doesn't try to change the layout; it only makes it possible to do so (because QEMU is now a

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 02/09/2020 12:42, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > The main issues I can see are that the .exe files end up under /msys64/qemu > and the > ROMs end up directly under /qemu rather than in $DESTDIR/share. > > Do we know why there is also a qemu-system-ppcw.exe that appears? The other thing to bear in

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 02/09/2020 07:42, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 02/09/20 08:09, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> diff --git a/configure b/configure >> index f6638abadf..cb56d31a5d 100755 >> --- a/configure >> +++ b/configure >> @@ -1015,6 +1015,9 @@ if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then >>prefix="/qemu" >>confsuffix=

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/09/20 08:09, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > diff --git a/configure b/configure > index f6638abadf..cb56d31a5d 100755 > --- a/configure > +++ b/configure > @@ -1015,6 +1015,9 @@ if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then >prefix="/qemu" >confsuffix="" >libs_qga="-lws2_32 -lwinmm -lpowrprof -lwts

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-01 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 01/09/2020 22:22, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il mar 1 set 2020, 23:15 Mark Cave-Ayland > ha scritto: > > I think this means that it's missing something from Yonggang Luo's patch > here: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg07668

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il mar 1 set 2020, 23:15 Mark Cave-Ayland ha scritto: > I think this means that it's missing something from Yonggang Luo's patch > here: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg07668.html. Yes, I am a bit afraid of that patch. I don't understand exactly why it's needed and I

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-09-01 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 01/09/2020 07:20, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Right now, the installation of QEMU is not relocatable; there is > a local hack in os_find_datadir() so that Windows binaries look > for ROMs in the executable directory, but that has several limitations: > > - it does not extend to configuration files,

[PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

2020-08-31 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Right now, the installation of QEMU is not relocatable; there is a local hack in os_find_datadir() so that Windows binaries look for ROMs in the executable directory, but that has several limitations: - it does not extend to configuration files, icons, etc. - it does not allow changing the data d