Re: [PATCH] meson: Clean up some dependencies regarding qemu-system

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 16/12/22 20:07, Helge Deller wrote:
> Reduce amount of compiled code and installed binaries if just the qemu
> utilities such as qemu-img, qemu-io and qemu-nbd have to be built.  This
> helps to make those tools easier available on hosts where qemu-system or
> qemu-user isn't supported.
> 
> Reason for this patch is that qemu fail to build on debian for some
> seconday non-release architectures (e.g. hppa, sh4, ia64), as can be
> seen here:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=qemu&suite=sid
> This patch helps to clean up the build so that these tools
> can be provided on those platforms in future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>


> index fbdb442fdf..4a499db441 100644
> --- a/qapi/meson.build
> +++ b/qapi/meson.build
> @@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ qapi_all_modules = [
>     'transaction',
>     'virtio',
>     'yank',
> +  'qdev',
>   ]
>   if have_system
>     qapi_all_modules += [
>       'acpi',
>       'audio',
> -    'qdev',
>       'pci',
>       'rdma',
>       'rocker',

Why do you want qdev out of sysemu?