Apparently because:
../meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Meson version is 0.59.3 but project requires
>=1.5.0
A full log can be found at
/home/landley/qemu/qemu/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
/home/landley/qemu/qemu/build/pyvenv/bin/meson setup --reconfigure
/home/landley/qemu/qemu
WARNING: Regenerating configuration from scratch.
Reason: Coredata file
'/home/landley/qemu/qemu/build/meson-private/coredata.dat' references
functions or classes that don't exist. This probably means that it was
generated with an old version of meson.
DEPRECATION: "pkgconfig" entry is deprecated and should be replaced by
"pkg-config"
(And then 30 screens more data...)
Seems a _bit_ awkward to do that (and potentially fail on a random new
dependency) just to delete it all again?
And I dunno what it's saying about the meson version, "aptitude show
meson" in my devuan daedalus ("debian bookworm" fork) says version
1.0.1-5 which is nowhere near 0.59.3 or 1.5.0? QEMU built fine with it
last week, and after yet another ./configure it seems to be chugging
along building the new -rc0 tag for the moment...
Rob