Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/17] qidl: add QEMU IDL processor

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/07/2012 12:36 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
> It would need to be something fairly ubiquitous though, and pygments is
> the more well-used library yet still isn't available on RHEL5 and
> probably a few other distros we need to support.

If someone wants to build qemu from source on RHEL5, they can also build
whatever parser package we need from source.  If there is sufficient
demand, we can package the parser for EPEL.

> 
> Although, we *could* just probe/disable schema/vmstate generation lacking
> such dependencies, but that absolutely requires us to check in modified
> schemas/vmstate (which we already do) and build based on those rather
> than autobuilt code. Based on comments elsewhere I think that's the
> direction we wanna go anyway though, so we have some options. I'll look
> into it.

I think a hard dependency on the parser is fine, as long as it is
available on recent distributions.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function