Right now meson_options.txt lists about 90 options. Each option
needs code in configure to parse it and pass the option down to Meson as
a -D command-line argument; in addition the default must be duplicated
between configure and meson_options.txt. This series tries to remove
the code duplication by generating the case statement for those --enable
and --disable options, as well as the corresponding help text.
About 80% of the options can be handled completely by the new mechanism.
Eight meson options are not of the --enable/--disable kind. Six more need
to be parsed in configure for various reasons documented in the patch,
but they still have their help automatically generated.
The advantages are:
- less code in configure
- parsing and help is more consistent (for example --enable-blobs was
not supported)
- options are described entirely in one place, meson_options.txt.
This make it more attractive to use Meson options instead of
hand-crafted configure options and config-host.mak
A few options change name: --enable-tcmalloc and --enable-jemalloc
become --enable-malloc={tcmalloc,jemalloc}; --disable-blobs becomes
--disable-install-blobs; --enable-trace-backend becomes
--enable-trace-backends. However, the old names are allowed
for backwards compatibility.
Message-Id: <20211007130829.632254-19-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
One of the example meson.build fragments incorrectly quotes some
symbols as 'CONFIG_FOO`; the correct syntax here is 'CONFIG_FOO'.
(This isn't a rST formatting mistake because the example is displayed
literally; it's just the wrong kind of quote.)
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210726142338.31872-3-peter.maydell@linaro.org
In rST markup, single backticks `like this` represent "interpreted
text", which can be handled as a bunch of different things if tagged
with a specific "role":
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#interpreted-text
(the most common one for us is "reference to a URL, which gets
hyperlinked").
The default "role" if none is specified is "title_reference",
intended for references to book or article titles, and it renders
into the HTML as <cite>...</cite> (usually comes out as italics).
build-system.rst seems to have been written under the mistaken
assumption that single-backticks mark up literal text (function
names, etc) which should be rendered in a fixed-width font.
The rST markup for this is ``double backticks``.
Update all the markup.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20210726142338.31872-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jose R. Ziviani <jziviani@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20210624103836.2382472-22-kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
$TARGET-NAME/config-target.mak has been removed a while ago.
Remove it now from the documentation, too.
Fixes: fdb75aeff7 ("configure: remove target configuration")
Message-Id: <20210316124208.455456-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Meson's "static" argument to cc.find_library is a tri-state. By default
Meson *prefers* a shared library, which basically means using -l to
look for it; instead, "static: false" *requires* a shared library. Of
course, "static: true" requires a static library, which is all good
for --enable-static builds.
For --disable-static, "static: false" is rarely desirable; it does not
match what the configure script used to do and the test is more complex
(and harder to debug if it fails, which was reported by Peter Lieven
for librbd).
Reported-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Tested-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Now that the build is done entirely by Meson, there is no need
to keep the Makefile conversion. Instead, we can ask Ninja about
the targets it exposes and forward them.
The main advantages are, from smallest to largest:
- reducing the possible namespace pollution within the Makefile
- removal of a relatively large Python program
- faster build because parsing Makefile.ninja is slower than
parsing build.ninja; and faster build after Meson runs because
we do not have to generate Makefile.ninja.
- tracking of command lines, which provides more accurate rebuilds
In addition the change removes the requirement for GNU make 3.82, which
was annoying on Mac, and avoids bugs on Windows due to ninjatool not
knowing how to convert Windows escapes to POSIX escapes.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Build all executables by default except for the known-broken ones.
This also allows running qemu-iotests without manually building
socket_scm_helper.
Reported-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Most of the Makefile bits are obsolete and can be removed.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
We do not need to ask cmake for the dependencies, so just use the
pkg-config mechanism. Keep "auto" for SDL so that it tries using
sdl-config too.
The documentation is adjusted to use SDL2_image as the example,
rather than SDL which does not use the "pkg-config" method.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini