On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:03:23PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > QEMU as recently switch its build system to use meson and the > ./configure step with meson is more restrictive that the step used to > be, most installation path wants to be within prefix, otherwise we > have this error message: > > ERROR: The value of the 'datadir' option is '/usr/share/qemu-xen' which > must be a subdir of the prefix '/usr/lib/xen'. > > In order to workaround the limitation, we will set prefix to the same > one as for the rest of Xen installation, and set all the other paths. > > For reference, a thread in qemu-devel: > "configure with datadir outside of --prefix fails with meson" > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/t/ > > And an issue in meson: > "artificial limitation of directories (forced to be in prefix)" > https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2561 > > Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <[email protected]> > --- > > I've tested the change with an oldish QEMU, qemu-xen-4.12, and the > layout of the tarball generated by osstest doesn't change.
Acked-by: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
