Re: [PATCH 1/1] os_find_datadir: search as in version 4.2

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/01/21 03:05, Brian Norris wrote:
> It turns out that Paolo inadvertently (?) fixed this issue by
> refactoring, in v5.2.0:
> ea1edcd7da1a vl: relocate paths to data directories
> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea1edcd7da1a375ef7ccf8aa93b72827b518ad8e;hp=63c4db4c2e6d221cecb5aafa365934bb05724cb4

That wasn't entirely inadvertent.  It had been on my todo list to fix 
relocatability for good, I just didn't remember how it got on the list. :)

So on one hand I didn't remember it to be a regression, and I only 
really set out to make QEMU relocatable in order to enable the change of 
commit d17f305a26 ("configure: use a platform-neutral prefix", 
2020-09-30).  On the other hand, your report was what had made me aware 
that relocatable installs were buggy and inconsistent.

Paolo