Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Require Python 2.6

[Steve Ellcey]

"Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:44:17PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 4 September 2015 at 20:53, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > RHEL-6 and SLES-11 provide Python 2.6.  It'll also work on OS X back
> > > to 10.6.

I am actually building qemu on CentOS 5.11 with Python 2.4.3.  I can probably
install Python 2.6 on the system if necessary to build.  Is the Python
requirement just a build requirement or is it (libraries?) also needed on the
machine where Qemu is run?

We actually ran into this already with libgmodule where the CentOS 5.11
version was too old.  We installed archive only libgmodule libraries so
that we could build qemu on CentOS 5.11 using the archive libgmodule library
and then users could run Qemu on different Centos 5.11 systems without having
to install a newer libgmodule on their system.

Steve Ellcey
address@hidden