Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] DTC as submodule

[Edgar E. Iglesias]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:10:54PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 April 2013 12:08, Edgar E. Iglesias <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:02:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> For submodules that do have autoconf-generated scripts in the repository
> >> (I think both of them do, in our case), we should trust upstream's
> >> configure script.  That's what everyone has been testing the git
> >> repository with.
> >
> > I downloaded the qemu-1.4.1 release and looked at the pixman subdir. It
> > doesnt come with a generated configure script, but has a autogen.sh script 
> > to
> > run autoconf itself. My understanding was that, like you say, the user
> > shouldn't need to run autoconf to generate configure, it should have been
> > provided. Am I missing something?
> 
> Our release notes from when we put pixman in:
> http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.3#Build_dependencies
> say that you need autoconf if you're using the built in submodule.
> I think that's just documentation of the current situation rather
> than an explicit decision that it's the right approach, though.

Thanks, that explains it.

Cheers,
Edgar