Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Change capstone's default state to disabled

[Programmingkid]

> On Apr 19, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 4/19/19 3:44 AM, G 3 wrote:
>> 
>> Here is the error message I see when compiling QEMU:
>> 
>> CHK version_gen.h
>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
>> `/Users/John/qemu-git/capstone/libcapstone.a'.  Stop.
>> make: *** [subdir-capstone] Error 2
> 
> You are configuring with --static?
> 
> I've seen this before myself -- IMO it's broken distro packaging, in that the
> shipped pkgconfig/capstone.pc claims static library support, but the static
> library itself wasn't shipped.
> 
> We should probably work around this in configure, and report the packaging 
> bug.

I do not use --static. This is what I use: ./configure 
--target-list=ppc-softmmu.

I think this is a bug with configure, or with the capstone repo.