Re: [PATCH] meson: fix botched compile check conversions

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 12:00, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> I wonder if the problem is more fundamental than that. Passing
> stuff in --extra-cflags is done to influence the flags used to
> compile the QEMU end user binaries. Unfortunately --extra-cflags
> is also getting applied to all the meson.build feature checks.
>
> IMHO we would get a more reliable result if the meson.build
> checks were fully isolated from the cflags we used for building
> everything else, so the checks get a well understood, predictable
> environment.

If you're using --extra-cflags to pass in "-I/path/to/libfoo/headers"
then you do want that to be used in the meson check for "do we have
libfoo", though...

-- PMM