Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: fix libcap detection

[Peter Maydell]

On 31 July 2012 18:56, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I believe the valgrind test patch should fix the issues Blue Swirl
>> was seeing with the 11-patch series (and I tested it on debian
>> squeeze which I think has the same gcc Blue was using).
>>
>> Patch 11/11 does enable -Werror on test code in a way which
>> causes configure to fail noisily if it encounters a warning:
>> I think it's better to commit this early rather than late
>> because then we can fix any lingering problems with odd
>> hosts or configurations which I missed. (The noisy failure
>> includes a clear message about how to work around it in
>> the interim, which is better than our current situation IMHO.)
>
> There are still problems, this time with Debian testing.

Hmm. Can we apply valgrind-patch + 1-10 for now? I think that
should be OK, and it would stem the flow of people submitting
further duplicate patches.

I'll look at the Debian testing issue.

-- PMM