Re: [PULL 00/18] Usb 20200828 patches

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 04:33:04PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il ven 28 ago 2020, 16:14 Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> ha
> scritto:
> 
> > Why is Meson trying to use CMake here? I don't think we want
> > to bring in another build tool dependency...
> >
> 
> It's asking cmake if it knows about the package, if pkg-config fails. This
> is because cmake has its own incompatible mechanism to tell users about
> compilation and linking flags, and the "dependency" line doesn't tell Meson
> if u2f-emu has a pkg-config or a cmake description.

It uses pkg-config, so we can explicitly say so.

> We can ask to use pkg-config only since none of our dependencies are
> cmake-only; see https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html#dependency-method.

I'll send a new pull with that addressed (also the other 11/18 comments).

thanks,
  Gerd