Re: [PULL 00/10] Gitlab-CI, qtest, moxie removal and misc patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 14:06, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/20/21 9:43 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 20/05/21 07:08, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >>> OK... Not sure how to detect it from ninja then.
> >>
> >> Every time you pull, there could be changes to the "configure" script
> >> which affect the build ... I guess you also won't notice those when
> >> you're only compiling with ninja? Thus at least after pulling from
> >> upstream, I think you have to type "make" once at least.
> >
> > Yes, and using "ninja" directly is not supported.
>
> Unrelated to my issue, but I find it unfair to state "using
> ninja directly is not supported" when the majority of the
> QEMU developers don't have access to the Meson 0.57 bugfix.

I dunno about "unfair". It's simply the case that the only way we document
to build QEMU is to run 'make'. Anything else might or might not work.
If there's an issue that we should be trying to fix by updating our
meson submodule, we should address it by making that update.

thanks
-- PMM