Re: [PATCH 5/6] meson: install $localstatedir/run for qga

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 30/08/20 11:44, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This doesn't work if /var/run exists and is a symlink:
> 
> Installing subdir /home/pbonzini/ff/run to 
> /home/pbonzini/ff/build/test/var/local/run
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 131, 
> in run
>     return options.run_func(options)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 538, 
> in run
>     installer.do_install(datafilename)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 357, 
> in do_install
>     self.install_subdirs(d) # Must be first, because it needs to delete the 
> old subtree.
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 383, 
> in install_subdirs
>     d.dirmaker.makedirs(full_dst_dir, exist_ok=True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 60, in 
> makedirs
>     os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=exist_ok)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/os.py", line 223, in makedirs
>     mkdir(name, mode)
> FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: 
> '/home/pbonzini/ff/build/test/var/local/run'

Nevermind, it works in 0.55.1.  I'll do a few more tests just to be
sure, but I've queued the series.

Paolo