Re: [libvirt PATCH 000/351] port libvirt to Meson build system

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:53:56AM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: Some things I noticed, building on Fedora 31, with meson 0.55 from pip A bunch of warnings from meson: WARNING: custom_target 'virtesxgen' has more than one output! Using the first one. WARNING: custom_target 'virthypervgen' has more than one output! Using the first one. WARNING: custom_target 'protocol.h' has more than one output! Using the first one. WARNING: custom_target 'generate-api' has more than one output! Using the first one. WARNING: custom_target 'index-api' has more than one output! Using the first one. WARNING: custom_target 'index-admin-api' has more than one output! Using the first one. WARNING: custom_target 'index-lxc-api' has more than one output! Using the first one. WARNING: custom_target 'index-qemu-api' has more than one output! Using the first one. During build, a bunch of bogus automake style progress messages: Generating virtesxgen with a custom command GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_types.generated.typedef GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_types.generated.typeenum GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_types.generated.typetostring GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_types.generated.typefromstring GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_types.generated.h GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_types.generated.c GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_methods.generated.h GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_methods.generated.c GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi_methods.generated.macro GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi.generated.h GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/esx/esx_vi.generated.c Generating virthypervgen with a custom command GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/hyperv/hyperv_wmi_classes.generated.typedef GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/hyperv/hyperv_wmi_classes.generated.h GEN /home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/build/src/hyperv/hyperv_wmi_classes.generated.c And one problem I think is unrelated / pre-existing, but lost in the noise of automake: ../tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c: In function ‘mymain’: ../tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c:132:1: note: variable tracking size limit exceeded with ‘-fvar-tracking-assignments’, retrying without 132 | mymain(void) | ^~~~~~ The conversion has introduced 9 new shell scripts in scripts/. IMHO, all of these need to be python scripts instead to follow out intent to standardize on python. I dream of a world with zero shell scripts. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|