Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] libcacard: initial commit

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:59:26PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 03/15/11 15:56, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 03/15/2011 09:51 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >> I don't think we want a --libs option that turns the build process into
> >> only producing the libs.
> > 
> > No, but you should be able to use options to disable everything but the
> > libs.  Likewise, you should be able to disable the libs.
> > 
> > This is necessary for distro packaging.
> 
> I don't think it is necessary for distro packaging. Most distros will
> build multiple binary packages from one source package, and it is up to
> the user to decide which ones to install.
> 

if someone has the prerequisites for building libcacard, but not for building
qemu, they should be able to build just libcacard. You can achieve this by
having flags specifically, or by just behaving like we behave for features in
general, that is not building qemu if it can't be. I think the first option is
cleaner because it also allows requesting just libcacard (even if you do have
the prerequisites for building qemu).

> Cheers,
> Jes
>