Re: get_relocated_path: the configured paths are not looked for?

[Michael Tokarev]

23.04.2023 14:47, Akihiko Odaki пишет:

https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/commit/e017f53a8550d0bcaaca81c6dacac8ec34295cf0
fwiw.

> Also, that works only if the version changed. For example, consider the case where you patched a module downstream. To compare the behaviors of the 
> patched and unpatched ones, you'll need to copy the modules somewhere else.
>
> Let's focus on modules in this discussion. There should be no problem with data files here. You can pick data files from a different QEMU version and 
> it should just work fine. And even if it unfortunately does not work, you can still use -L option to fix it.
>
> That's not the case for modules. Modules are coupled with the executable so you need to copy them along with the executable and the executable should 
> be able to find them.

The modules case is actually trivial.  For this one, we have
$QEMU_MODULE_DIR which, if set, will be searched first.

There's no need to make tricks and turn --libdir or --datadir
specified at configure time as absolute paths, into something
entirely unpredictable.

/mjt