Re: [Qemu-devel] buildbot failure in qemu on default_x86_64_debian_6_0

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 December 2012 07:28, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Most (or even all?) buildbots show the same problem which I have
> with my local Debian squeeze distribution:pixman is older than
> 0.18.4 (Debian uses 0.16.4-1), so builds which worked recently
> now fail because they require the internal pixman which configure
> does not find.
>
> Maybe I missed the discussion, but do we really need 0.18.4, or
> should we allow older versions of pixman which are still part of
> current Linux distributions?

I don't think we should be depending on bleeding-edge pixman
ideally (even if we can get away with it because of our local
copy). Part of the argument for adding the pixman dep in the
first place was "all linux distros will have this"...

-- PMM