pc-bios/keymaps: Use the official xkb name for Arabic layout, not the legacy synonym
commit497fad38979c16b6412388927401e577eba43d26
authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:20:24 +0000 (20 17:20 +0100)
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:46:02 +0000 (23 11:46 +0100)
tree6e649ca6266c13a0f153c91a95a48884946345f2
parent7c347c7333d9c6651b0d0f985e7d919dc3aba607
pc-bios/keymaps: Use the official xkb name for Arabic layout, not the legacy synonym

The xkb official name for the Arabic keyboard layout is 'ara'.
However xkb has for at least the past 15 years also permitted it to
be named via the legacy synonym 'ar'.  In xkeyboard-config 2.39 this
synoynm was removed, which breaks compilation of QEMU:

FAILED: pc-bios/keymaps/ar
/home/fred/qemu-git/src/qemu/build-full/qemu-keymap -f pc-bios/keymaps/ar -l ar
xkbcommon: ERROR: Couldn't find file "symbols/ar" in include paths
xkbcommon: ERROR: 1 include paths searched:
xkbcommon: ERROR:  /usr/share/X11/xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR: 3 include paths could not be added:
xkbcommon: ERROR:  /home/fred/.config/xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR:  /home/fred/.xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR:  /etc/xkb
xkbcommon: ERROR: Abandoning symbols file "(unnamed)"
xkbcommon: ERROR: Failed to compile xkb_symbols
xkbcommon: ERROR: Failed to compile keymap

The upstream xkeyboard-config change removing the compat
mapping is:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/commit/470ad2cd8fea84d7210377161d86b31999bb5ea6

Make QEMU always ask for the 'ara' xkb layout, which should work on
both older and newer xkeyboard-config.  We leave the QEMU name for
this keyboard layout as 'ar'; it is not the only one where our name
for it deviates from the xkb standard name.

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20230620162024.1132013-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1709
pc-bios/keymaps/meson.build