Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v15 0/9] Shared library module support

[Peter Maydell]

On 13 January 2014 16:59, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is based on Fam's patches from October.  Very few changes
> apart from rebasing:
>
> * I split his patch 8 in two parts.  There is benefit in
> using per-object cflags and libs even before the module-loading
> machinery gets in.
>
> * I added a new patch "darwin: do not use -mdynamic-no-pic".
> CCing Alex Graf for it.
>
> * applied the small change I had requested a small change in patch 2
>
> I'm not sending a pull request yet because of these two changes,
> but I'll be sending one in a few days.

This doesn't build on MacOSX if you try to enable modules with
--enable-modules:

make: *** No rule to make target `block/curl.so', needed by `modules'.  Stop.

Should we have configure refuse to allow modules if the host
platform doesn't support it?

thanks
-- PMM