Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available

[Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>]

On 10/17/2011 11:45 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 02:18 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> We have several targets in the PPC tree now that basically require libfdt
>> to function properly, namely the pseries and the e500 targets. This dependency
>> will rather increase than decrease in the future, so I want to make sure
>> that people building shiny new 1.0 actually have libfdt installed to get
>> rid of a few ifdefs in the code.
>>
>> Warning: This patch will likely make configure fail for people who don't
>> select their own --target-list, but don't have libfdt development packages
>> installed. However, we really need this new dependency to move on.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf<agraf@suse.de>
> 
> F15 has them, and they install also on older Fedoras if you pick them from Koji.
> 
> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Really?  Under what name?


$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
$ sudo yum search libfdt
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Warning: No matches found for: libfdt
No Matches found
$ sudo yum search fdt
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
================================= Matched: fdt =================================
eclipse-photran-intel.noarch : Intel Fortran compiler support for Photran


I actually spent several hours looking for libfdt a weekend or
two ago without success and eventually gave up.  Perhaps I simply
have no idea what I'm looking for, but that said, I suspect many
others won't know either.

Please also add some INSTALL and/or wiki documentation about how
to find sources and/or pre-built packages for common distros.


r~