From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: configure with datadir outside of --prefix fails with meson
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:40:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200918134018.GJ1628512@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918133012.GH2024@perard.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:30:12PM +0100, Anthony PERARD via wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When we build QEMU while building Xen we do:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/xen \
> --datadir=/usr/share/qemu-xen \
> ...
>
> But meson give an error:
> ERROR: The value of the 'datadir' option is '/usr/share/qemu-xen' which must be a subdir of the prefix '/usr/lib/xen'.
>
> Would it still be possible to allow datadir outside of prefix or is it
> going to be a limitation imposed by meson?
This appears to be enforced by meson. It ony allows certain dirs to
be outside the prefix.
Regards,
Daniel
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