Re: [PATCH] tools/configure: Check if pixman is present on the system

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 12:13 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> On 14/01/15 07:11, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>> Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org> 01/13/15 7:17 PM >>>
> >> QEMU upstream requires the use of pixman. When pixman is not present the
> >> system, the configure of QEMU will fail with:
> >>
> >> ERROR: pixman not present. Your options:
> >> (1) Preferred: Install the pixman devel package (any recent
> >> distro should have packages as Xorg needs pixman too).
> >> (2) Fetch the pixman submodule, using:
> >> git submodule update --init pixman
> >>
> >> I think we can use by default the version on the system. So check it
> >> a Xen configuration time to avoid a build issue later.
> > 
> > Since qemu building isn't a required part of building the tools, is a check in
> > the tools configure process really an appropriate thing to do?
> 
> QEMU is a required part of building the tools.

Not stricty true. Pass --with-system-qemu if you wish to avoid it.

>  Any failure to build QEMU
> will make Xen tools build fail. It's reproductible with "make
> install-tools" and pixman not installed.
> 
> Regards,
>