Re: [RFC PATCH] meson: Only install ROMs when building system emulation binaries

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 15/01/21 18:51, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> It is pointless to install ROM blobs for user emulation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> ---
> RFC because I think it would be better to make the 'blobs'
> option a 'feature' instead of a boolean so we can set it
> as 'auto' and then in that case we could do something

Yes it's better to do that and have

install_blobs = get_option('install_blobs').enabled() or
  (get_option('install_blobs').auto() and have_system)

And then if get_option('install_blobs').auto() you could install blobs 
only if the corresponding target is included in target_dirs:

if get_option('install_blobs').enabled() or 'i386-softmmu' in 
target_dirs or 'x86_64-softmmu' in target_dirs
  ...
endif

Paolo

>    blobs = have_system
>
> because currently ./configure still displays:
>
>                      Install blobs: YES
>
> which is confusing.
> ---
>   meson.build | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 954152c90fe..273b8e6baa9 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -2254,7 +2254,9 @@
>   
>   subdir('scripts')
>   subdir('tools')
> -subdir('pc-bios')
> +if have_system
> +  subdir('pc-bios')
> +endif
>   subdir('docs')
>   subdir('tests')
>   if gtk.found()