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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: thuth@redhat.com, luoyonggang@gmail.com,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] capstone: Convert Makefile bits to meson bits
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:58:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74eed6fb-3b83-9338-949a-4f3ce3098315@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4813770a-34a4-72ce-17f7-7ea451a7af99@linaro.org>

On 15/09/20 16:27, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 9/14/20 11:27 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Looks good. Can you just add a "# Submodules" heading above the test?
>>
>> I would also like to remove the "yes" value (that is, the default fails if the
>> internal copy is not there) but it can be done later for all submodules.
> 
> Unless you simply plan to rename {no, yes} to {disabled, enabled}, as for the
> Feature objects, why?
> 
> That seems to be the only sensible value for --enable-foo, without the =system
> or =git specifiers.  We *should* fail if no system library nor internal copy is
> present.

Yes, that was a bit concise.  I would like "auto" to take the meaning
that "yes" currently as.  Right now we have

no -> Easy :)
system -> System capstone if found, fail otherwise
internal/git -> Compile capstone if found, fail otherwise
auto -> System capstone, then internal, then disable
yes -> System capstone, then internal, then fail

I'm not sure of the usefulness of disabling a dependency because we
don't have it checked out, since we have the machinery to do the
checkout automatically.  So that would become:

no -> Easy :)
system -> System capstone if found, fail otherwise
internal/git -> Compile capstone if found, fail otherwise
auto -> System capstone, then internal, then fail

The disadvantage is that it would be different from other "auto"
symbols, which never fail.  But then those other "auto" symbols do not
have a built-in fallback, so the question is whether the combination of

1) building from a fresh git checkout
2) --disable-git-update
3) not having a system capstone/libfdt/slirp
4) not having --disable-{capstone,libfdt,slirp} on the command line

is more likely to be intentional or operator error.

Paolo



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14 23:02 [PATCH v2 00/10] capstone + disassembler patches Richard Henderson
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] capstone: Convert Makefile bits to meson bits Richard Henderson
2020-09-14 23:06   ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-15  6:27     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-15 14:27       ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-15 16:12         ` 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)
2020-09-15 16:59           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-15 17:07             ` 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)
2020-09-15 17:14               ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-15 17:20                 ` 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)
2020-09-15 16:58         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-09-15  6:10   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] capstone: Update to upstream "next" branch Richard Henderson
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] disas: Move host asm annotations to tb_gen_code Richard Henderson
2020-09-15 16:36   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] disas: Clean up CPUDebug initialization Richard Henderson
2020-09-17 14:39   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-17 14:50   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-17 17:06     ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-17 20:20       ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] disas: Use qemu/bswap.h for bfd endian loads Richard Henderson
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] disas: Cleanup plugin_disas Richard Henderson
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] disas: Configure capstone for aarch64 host without libvixl Richard Henderson
2020-09-17 14:44   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] disas: Split out capstone code to disas/capstone.c Richard Henderson
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] disas: Enable capstone disassembly for s390x Richard Henderson
2020-09-17 16:30   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-14 23:02 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] disas/capstone: Add skipdata hook " Richard Henderson
2020-09-17 16:32   ` Thomas Huth

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