Re: [PATCH v7 05/11] osdep: build with non-working system() function

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 00:12, Joelle van Dyne <j@getutm.app> wrote:
> cc.compiles should work though. Is there a reason why it's not used
> instead of all the compile_prog checks in ./configure ?

As Paolo says, that's because our transition to Meson is
pretty recent. We put in the minimum necessary to move all
our old makefiles over to meson.build, but left the bulk
of the old configure script in place initially. Since then
we've been gradually converting tests in configure to
meson.build tests, but configure's a big script and it's
taking us a while. In the meantime we're preferring new
tests to be done in meson.

thanks
-- PMM