Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] libcacard: initial commit

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 03/15/11 15:23, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:45:29AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 03/15/2011 08:14 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alternatively the external apps that build against it should be taught
>>>> to link with the QEMU version.
>>>>
>>> That would require me to teach qemu's configure to build libcacard, possibly
>>> only libcacard (even though qemu doesn't need a lot of packages by itself,
>>> I still wouldn't want apt-get install spice-client to drag in qemu-kvm).
>>
>> Any reasonable packaging system can generate multiple binary
>> packages from a source source package without the binary packages
>> being implicit dependent on each other.
> 
> of course, I was just saying it would be easier if qemu's configure system
> allowed this.

It's really not far off, most of it is in the Makefiles. You really just
need to have a libcacard flag that is enabled per default (and is
required if one asks for --enable-smartcard), but can be switched off,
as well as a flag to not build the main bits.

Patches are welcome :)

Cheers,
Jes