Re: [PATCH 24/34] configure: switch directory options to automatic parsing

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 4/21/22 11:48, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>     While prefix, bindir and qemu_suffix needs special treatment due to
>     differences between Windows and POSIX systems, everything else
>     needs no extra code in configure.
>
>
> Afaik, it's not common to install binaries under $prefix on Windows. I 
> don't know any open-source project doing that. msys2 explicitly change 
> it to bin again: 
> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-qemu/PKGBUILD#L94 
> <https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-qemu/PKGBUILD#L94>

It's not, but it's been done like this forever in QEMU for the sake of 
installing
in "C:\Program Files".

I didn't want to introduce visible changes with this patch, but we could
remove this special casing, and apply it instead when building the NSIS
installers.

Paolo