Re: [PATCH 4/4] [broken] meson: try link tracepoints to module

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > So "var2 = var1" creates a copy not a reference I guess?
> > 
> > Which implies that ...
> > 
> >     foo_ss.add(something)
> > 
> > ... is different from ...
> > 
> >     bar_ss = foo_ss
> >     bar_ss.add(something)
> > 
> > ... which in turn explains why the patch doesn't work at all.
> > 
> > Now I'm wondering how I can make trace/meson.build add the trace
> > objects to the module source sets if I can't pass around references
> > to the module source sets?
> > 
> > Paolo?  Any hints how to tackle this the meson way?
> 
> Maybe managing it all in the main meson.build, like the
> e28ab096bf8..da33fc09873 cleanup?
> ("Move the creation of the library to the main meson.build")

I don't see how that'll help.

The fundamental idea is hw/*/meson.build stores the source set in the
new trace_events_config, then trace/meson.build can pick it up there
when it loops over the trace_events_config array, adding the generated
trace source files to the correct source set.

Whenever that loop is in trace/meson.build or the toplevel meson.build
doesn't make much of a difference I think.

I think the problem is meson stores a copy not a reference so the
trace_events_config loop doesn't update the original source set.  When
meson loops over the module source sets it doesn't see the updates
because those changes where done on a throw-away copy.

I don't see an easy way out :(

take care,
  Gerd