From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/configure: Check if pixman is present on the system Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:24:18 +0000 Message-ID: <1421238258.19103.247.camel@citrix.com> References: <1421172890-29763-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org> <54B6168602000078000C581A@mail.emea.novell.com> <54B65D52.8020007@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54B65D52.8020007@linaro.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Julien Grall Cc: ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com, Jan Beulich , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 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, >