Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] capstone: Convert Makefile bits to meson bits

[Thomas Huth]

On 15/09/2020 01.02, Richard Henderson wrote:
> There are better ways to do this, e.g. meson cmake subproject,
> but that requires cmake 3.7 and some of our CI environments
> only provide cmake 3.5.
> 
> Nor can we add a meson.build file to capstone/, because the git
> submodule would then always report "untracked files".  Fixing that
> would require creating our own branch on the qemu git mirror, at
> which point we could just as easily create a native meson subproject.
> 
> Instead, build the library via the main meson.build.
> 
> This improves the current state of affairs in that we will re-link
> the qemu executables against a changed libcapstone.a, which we wouldn't
> do before-hand.  In addition, the use of the confuration header file

s/confuration/configuration/

 Thomas