Relative symlink should work on Windows.
Only symlink that points to non-exist file would file.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 11:09 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 15:05, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 29/07/2021 14.58, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 13:56, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> > >>
> > >> Meson now checks that subprojects do not access files from parent
> > >> project. While we all agree this is best practice, libvhost-user also
> > >> want to share a few headers with QEMU, and libvhost-user isn't really a
> > >> standalone project at this point (although this is making the dependency
> > >> a bit more explicit).
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> > >> Message-Id: <20210505151313.203258-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > >> ---
> > >>   subprojects/libvhost-user/include/atomic.h       | 1 +
> > >>   subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c        | 2 +-
> > >>   subprojects/libvhost-user/meson.build            | 6 +-----
> > >>   subprojects/libvhost-user/standard-headers/linux | 1 +
> > >
> > >> diff --git a/subprojects/libvhost-user/include/atomic.h b/subprojects/libvhost-user/include/atomic.h
> > >> new file mode 120000
> > >> index 0000000000..8c2be64f7b
> > >> --- /dev/null
> > >> +++ b/subprojects/libvhost-user/include/atomic.h
> > >> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> > >> +../../../include/qemu/atomic.h
> > >> \ No newline at end of file
> > >
> > >> diff --git a/subprojects/libvhost-user/standard-headers/linux b/subprojects/libvhost-user/standard-headers/linux
> > >> new file mode 120000
> > >> index 0000000000..15a2378139
> > >> --- /dev/null
> > >> +++ b/subprojects/libvhost-user/standard-headers/linux
> > >> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> > >> +../../../include/standard-headers/linux
> > >> \ No newline at end of file
> > >
> > >
> > > Should these really be missing the trailing newline ?
> >
> > It's a symlink, so yes, there does not need to be a newline in here.
>
> Interesting. How does it work on Windows hosts ?
>
> -- PMM
>


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