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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-09-11 13:12:11 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-09-30 19:09:19 +0200
commit27d551c00d5458d1deda33508dab7453959ca2c6 (patch)
tree303df74b795d66e37e49ab876ea09079a721a47e /docs
parent8a5701e54a1f6a355072751e40c0ef440a4402b3 (diff)
meson: clean up build_by_default
Build all executables by default except for the known-broken ones. This also allows running qemu-iotests without manually building socket_scm_helper. Reported-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Tested-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ compilation as possible. The Meson "sourceset" functionality is used
to list the files and their dependency on various configuration
symbols.
+All executables are built by default, except for some `contrib/`
+binaries that are known to fail to build on some platforms (for example
+32-bit or big-endian platforms). Tests are also built by default,
+though that might change in the future.
+
Various subsystems that are common to both tools and emulators have
their own sourceset, for example `block_ss` for the block device subsystem,
`chardev_ss` for the character device subsystem, etc. These sourcesets