Re: [PATCH 09/26] configure, meson: convert vte detection to meson

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 01:22:44PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure         | 35 ++++-------------------------------
>  meson.build       | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
>  meson_options.txt |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

> @@ -871,14 +872,22 @@ if not get_option('gtk').auto() or (have_system and not cocoa.found())
>                          required: false,
>                          kwargs: static_kwargs)
>      gtk = declare_dependency(dependencies: [gtk, gtkx11])
> +
> +    if not get_option('vte').auto() or have_system
> +      vte = dependency('vte-2.91', version: '>=0.32.0',
> +                       method: 'pkg-config',
> +                       required: get_option('vte'),
> +                       kwargs: static_kwargs)
> +      if not vte.found()
> +        vte = dependency('vte-2.90', version: '>=0.32.0',
> +                         method: 'pkg-config',
> +                         required: get_option('vte'),
> +                         kwargs: static_kwargs)
> +      endif

The old configure checks didn't have a version number How did you
decide on 0.32 ?  This version number doesn't make a whole lot of
sense to me in the way it is used.

vte changes from ABI 2.90 to 2.91 in release 0.37, so you'll never
get a version less than that with vte-2.91 IIUC.

Meanwhile all our supported distros ship 2.91 API now AFAICT, so we
don't need the 2.90 code at all.

I'd suggest dropping vte-2.90 in the configure script first, and then
doing a simpler meson conversion.

Regards,
Daniel
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