Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/12] Final changes for 2.4-rc0

[Peter Maydell]

On 24 July 2015 at 14:00, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 24 July 2015 at 13:53, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Ok, then it looks like a preexisting problem indeed.
>
> Well, not entirely. This set of configure flags used to work,
> and now it does not. That's a regression.

In particular, configure --static --disable-tools --disable-system
now fails, and I think that's a perfectly sensible set of options.

It fails trying to link
  LINK  tests/qemu-iotests/socket_scm_helper:

...why are we trying to build a helper program in tests/ for
a simple 'make' (not 'make check') ? Why are we building it
in a config which has disabled building tools and system exes?

Probably avoiding building this random exe would fix things.

thanks
-- PMM