[Qemu-devel] Re: Win2k host problem with {get, free}{addr, name}info()

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/22/2010 07:16 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > gnulib's submodule is never built directly.  It only lives in the build tree
> > so that it can be consulted by gnulib-tool, but it doesn't even make it to
> > the release tarballs.  Instead, gnulib-tool should be invoked after checking
> > out superproject.git, and copies selected gnulib files into superproject's
> > checkout (these files are .gitignore'd).
>
> gnulib-tool wants to patch configure.ac. After adding an empty one and
> running "gnulib-tool --import getaddrinfo inet_ntop", it still remains
> empty. Not very clever. There are a lot of .c files, some .h files and
> also a lot of .m4 files.

I agree that your posted patch is the best way---also considering that 
the path to autotools (autoconf, at least) is laden with deprecation 
periods and flamewars.

Paolo