Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops

[Søren Sandmann]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 25 September 2012 09:47, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Even though pixman is used by core linux packages it is still a young
>> project. On older distros (RHEL-5 for example) it isn't included and
>> must be compiled manually.
>
> For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument
> against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute
> cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkward to
> deal with manually building a dependent library.)

Pixman was actually included in RHEL 5.8 which was released in February
this year.


Soren