Re: [libvirt PATCH 037/351] meson: add readline build option

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 01:47:21PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 13:27 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > Gross hack in our CI vs gross hack in spec file. I vote for CI to have > > the hack. > > > > In addition the macros are provided by meson and there are changes in > > the macro file, for example the latest macro file uses `meson compile` > > instead of `ninja build` which was introduced in 0.54.0 so we would have > > to have some older copy of the macros. > > Not really, since the version of Meson that we use for building would > still be the one installed from PyPi, eg. 0.54.0 or newer. What about > the other way around? Would the old macros work fine with the newer > Meson? An alternative idea, meson 0.54.0 depends on Python 3.8 ABI. Python 3.8 is available on CentOS-8, so maybe we could try asking for a meson 0.54 build on CentOS 8 as well.