[libvirt PATCH] meson: Drop readline kludge

Both FreeBSD ports and Homebrew on macOS have readline 8.1 now, and that version contains a correct pkg-config file so the kludge is no longer necessary. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Only took a couple of years :) Test pipeline: https://gitlab.com/abologna/libvirt/-/pipelines/282088714 meson.build | 31 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index b827bd9275..cd88e26f9a 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -1268,37 +1268,6 @@ else readline_dep = dependency('', required: false) endif if readline_dep.found() - # Gross kludge for readline include path obtained through pkg-config. - # - # As of 8.0, upstream readline.pc has -I${includedir}/readline among - # its Cflags, which is clearly wrong. This does not affect Linux - # because ${includedir} is already part of the default include path, - # but on other platforms that's not the case and the result is that - # <readline/readline.h> can't be located, causing the build to fail. - # A patch solving this issue has already been posted upstream, so once - # the fix has landed in FreeBSD ports and macOS homebrew we can safely - # drop the kludge and rely on pkg-config alone on those platforms. - # - # [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2019-04/msg00007.html - if readline_dep.type_name() == 'pkgconfig' and host_machine.system() != 'linux' - pkg_config_prog = find_program('pkg-config') - rc = run_command(pkg_config_prog, '--cflags', 'readline', check: true) - cflags = rc.stdout().strip() - if cflags.contains('include/readline') - rc = run_command( - 'python3', '-c', - &#39;print(&quot;@0@&quot;.replace(&quot;@1(a)&quot;, &quot;@2(a)&quot;))&#39;.format( - cflags, 'include/readline', 'include', - ), - check: true, - ) - readline_dep = declare_dependency( - compile_args: rc.stdout().strip().split(), - dependencies: [ readline_dep ], - ) - endif - endif - # We need this to avoid compilation issues with modern compilers. # See 9ea3424a178 for a more detailed explanation readline_dep = declare_dependency( -- 2.26.3