Re: [PATCH 01/11] capstone: Convert Makefile bits to meson bits

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 01:04, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> There are better ways to do this, e.g. meson cmake subproject,
> but that requires cmake 3.7 and some of our CI environments
> only provide cmake 3.5.
>
> Nor can we add a meson.build file to capstone/, because the git
> submodule would then always report "untracked files".  Fixing that
> would require creating our own branch on the qemu git mirror, at
> which point we could just as easily create a native meson subproject.
>
> In leiu, build the library via the main meson.build.

"in lieu" (or you could just say "instead" :-))

thanks
-- PMM