Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add meson wrap fallback for slirp & dtc

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 05:18:44PM +0400, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Meson "wrap" is a mechanism to build dependencies that doesn't rely on git
> submodules and integrate external dependencies as subproject()s.
> 
> This offers developpers a simpler way to build QEMU with missing system
> dependencies (ex, libslirp in my case), but also simplify the fallback build
> definition of dtc/libfdt.

Do we actually need this facility though ? We've already determined
that every platform we need has libslirp now, and IIUC Thomas determined
recently that dtc is also available everywhere we need it to be.

So why would we want to continue to special case these two libraries,
out of all the many many many other libraries we also have deps on.

With regards,
Daniel
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