Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 09/25/12 12:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 September 2012 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 09/25/12 11:31, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument
>>> against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute
>>> cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkward to
>>> deal with manually building a dependent library.)
>>
>> Why it is that a big deal?  Whatever is used to distribute qemu to the
>> cluster machines (local yum repo?) can be used to distribute pixman too, no?
> 
> There's a big leap between "run configure, put the qemu executable
> in some generally available directory" and "you have to first get
> and build some third party library, install it somewhere, tell
> configure where you put it, then build qemu, then make sure that
> not just the qemu executable but also this third party library
> are on all the machines". At the moment you can build qemu without
> any non-system dependencies, and we should have a really good
> reason for breaking that.

Hmm, we could import a pixman copy into the qemu tree and use that as
fallback if we don't find pixman installed on the system ...

cheers,
  Gerd