Re: [PULL 0/3] Update meson version

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

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 01:40:36PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 10:34, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > The following changes since commit 831aaf24967a49d7750090b9dcfd6bf356f16529:
> >
> >   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/marcandre/tags/misc-pull-request' into staging (2021-09-14 18:14:56 +0100)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to ccc3f971c37bd2202a21abc9f0be093f10426364:
> >
> >   hexagon: use env keyword argument to pass PYTHONPATH (2021-09-15 09:12:55 +0200)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > * Update Meson to 0.58.2
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Paolo Bonzini (3):
> >       meson: bump submodule to 0.58.2
> >       meson: switch minimum meson version to 0.58.2
> >       hexagon: use env keyword argument to pass PYTHONPATH
> 
> So, I tried merging this, ran into some "is this an issue with this
> pullreq or is it just an intermittent or infrastructure" issues,
> and decided to postpone the merge for a bit and retry it later.
> 
> It has made an absolute mess of my incremental build setups.
> They now all fail with errors like this, even after having blown
> away the build directory and re-created it:

Might want to 'git submodule deinit --all --force' to purge
all currently checked out submodules, so it'll then re-init
them in a clean (older) state. In theory this should be handled
by the git-submodule.sh script we have in QEMU, but 'deinit' is
a big hammer to try if wierd things appear to be happening
despite cleaning the build dir.

> Is there anything that can be done to make meson version bumps
> not a horrific pain to back out ? This seems to go wrong pretty
> much every time.

Save your previous 'build' directory contents somewhere safe
and record the submodule checkout hashes, so they can be
reset to that ?


Regards,
Daniel
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