Re: Regressions in build process introduced since August

[Stefano Garzarella]

CCing Paolo and Marc-André who worked on meson integrations.

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 11:57:25AM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> yesterday I tried to build new QEMU installers for Windows and noticed 
> two regressions which break my build process:
>
> *** Change in handling of --extra-cflags
>
> Running `configure [...] --extra-cflags="-I /xyz"` results in compiler 
> flags `-I [...] /xyz`, so the `-I` and `/xyz` are separated by other 
> compiler flags which obviously cannot work as expected. I could work 
> around that by removing the space and using a pattern like `-I/xyz`.
>
> This regression is not restricted to builds targeting Windows.
>
> *** Setting INSTALLER no longer handled
>
> meson.build sets a hard name for the Windows installer executable: 
> installer = 'qemu-setup-' + meson.project_version() + '.exe'.
>
> Previously the installer name could be changed by running `make 
> installer INSTALLER=qemu-setup-something.exe`. This no longer works. 
> Is there an alternative solution how the name of the installer 
> executable can be set? Or how could I reimplement the lost 
> functionality?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Stefan Weil