[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Drop roms from standard build

[Anthony Liguori]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> There is no point in generating and copying the optionsrom each time
> qemu is build. It's a maintenance task given that we carry them as
> binaries already. And that task could also be triggered explicitly via
> 'make roms'. Solves the mingw32 build breakage, too.
>   

Yeah, it needs fixing but we absolutely want to build the roms as part 
of the normal build process.

When a user types make install from a source tarball, if they have the 
proper tool chain, we should be building everything from scratch and 
installing the versions that we built.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori