DIRS is used to create the directory in which the LINKS symbolic links
reside, or to create directories for object files.  The former can
be done directly in the symlinking loop, while the latter is done
by Meson already, so DIRS is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 configure | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 80b5d0c148..4f7ed2ad1a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3794,7 +3794,6 @@ if test "$safe_stack" = "yes"; then
 fi
 
 # If we're using a separate build tree, set it up now.
-# DIRS are directories which we simply mkdir in the build tree;
 # LINKS are things to symlink back into the source tree
 # (these can be both files and directories).
 # Caution: do not add files or directories here using wildcards. This
@@ -3806,12 +3805,6 @@ fi
 # UNLINK is used to remove symlinks from older development versions
 # that might get into the way when doing "git update" without doing
 # a "make distclean" in between.
-DIRS="tests tests/tcg tests/qapi-schema tests/qtest/libqos"
-DIRS="$DIRS tests/qtest tests/qemu-iotests tests/vm tests/fp tests/qgraph"
-DIRS="$DIRS docs docs/interop fsdev scsi"
-DIRS="$DIRS pc-bios/optionrom pc-bios/s390-ccw"
-DIRS="$DIRS roms/seabios"
-DIRS="$DIRS contrib/plugins/"
 LINKS="Makefile"
 LINKS="$LINKS tests/tcg/Makefile.target"
 LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile"
@@ -3840,9 +3833,9 @@ for bios_file in \
 do
     LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/$(basename $bios_file)"
 done
-mkdir -p $DIRS
 for f in $LINKS ; do
     if [ -e "$source_path/$f" ]; then
+        mkdir -p `dirname ./$f`
         symlink "$source_path/$f" "$f"
     fi
 done
-- 
2.33.1

On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 at 10:01, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> DIRS is used to create the directory in which the LINKS symbolic links
> reside, or to create directories for object files.  The former can
> be done directly in the symlinking loop, while the latter is done
> by Meson already, so DIRS is not necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 80b5d0c148..4f7ed2ad1a 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -3794,7 +3794,6 @@ if test "$safe_stack" = "yes"; then
>  fi
>
>  # If we're using a separate build tree, set it up now.
> -# DIRS are directories which we simply mkdir in the build tree;
>  # LINKS are things to symlink back into the source tree
>  # (these can be both files and directories).
>  # Caution: do not add files or directories here using wildcards. This
> @@ -3806,12 +3805,6 @@ fi
>  # UNLINK is used to remove symlinks from older development versions
>  # that might get into the way when doing "git update" without doing
>  # a "make distclean" in between.
> -DIRS="tests tests/tcg tests/qapi-schema tests/qtest/libqos"
> -DIRS="$DIRS tests/qtest tests/qemu-iotests tests/vm tests/fp tests/qgraph"
> -DIRS="$DIRS docs docs/interop fsdev scsi"
> -DIRS="$DIRS pc-bios/optionrom pc-bios/s390-ccw"
> -DIRS="$DIRS roms/seabios"
> -DIRS="$DIRS contrib/plugins/"
>  LINKS="Makefile"
>  LINKS="$LINKS tests/tcg/Makefile.target"
>  LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile"
> @@ -3840,9 +3833,9 @@ for bios_file in \
>  do
>      LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/$(basename $bios_file)"
>  done
> -mkdir -p $DIRS
>  for f in $LINKS ; do
>      if [ -e "$source_path/$f" ]; then
> +        mkdir -p `dirname ./$f`
>          symlink "$source_path/$f" "$f"
>      fi
>  done

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Ideally at some point we should move the LINKS stuff into
meson too, and get rid of the wildcarding. pc-bios/meson.build
already has to have an explicit list of the blobs that we
here are handling via wildcards.

thanks
-- PMM

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> DIRS is used to create the directory in which the LINKS symbolic links
> reside, or to create directories for object files.  The former can
> be done directly in the symlinking loop, while the latter is done
> by Meson already, so DIRS is not necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

-- 
Alex Bennée