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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not availabl
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available |
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Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:08:53 -0700 |
On 18.10.2011, at 11:30, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Am 18.10.2011 um 10:55 schrieb Andreas Färber <address@hidden>:
>>
>>> Am 18.10.2011 02:18, schrieb Alexander Graf:
>>>> We have several targets in the PPC tree now that basically require libfdt
>>>> to function properly, namely the pseries and the e500 targets. This
>>>> dependency
>>>> will rather increase than decrease in the future, so I want to make sure
>>>> that people building shiny new 1.0 actually have libfdt installed to get
>>>> rid of a few ifdefs in the code.
>>>>
>>>> Warning: This patch will likely make configure fail for people who don't
>>>> select their own --target-list, but don't have libfdt development packages
>>>> installed. However, we really need this new dependency to move on.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> openSUSE 12.1 has libfdt1-devel, but you should set up a submodule and
>>> working build rules for Darwin, Haiku, etc. `make` doesn't fully work so
>>> I used custom scripts to build the right parts and to manually "install"
>>> the resulting binary and headers.
>>
>> I don't fully understand. It's a build dependency, so whoever maintains
>> libfdt / is interested in running ppc targets on those OSs needs to fix
>> libfdt to build there.
>>
>> It's really the same as a dependency on glib or sdl or ... :). It's just
>> less well known (and less active as a project).
>
> It's not available on Ubuntu or Debian and I doubt that compiled
> packages are available for OSX or Windows. OpenBSD does not have it in
> the ports. So I'd use submodule approach.
If we do a submodule, it will never get packaged. And then we'll practically
have yet another fork of it :(. The submodule approach is reasonable for our
binary blobs, sure. But this is a library and IMHO should be treated as such.
Alex
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available, Alexander Graf, 2011/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available, Andreas Färber, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available, David Gibson, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available, David Gibson, 2011/10/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available, Peter Maydell, 2011/10/18