From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcXTl-0000NA-3g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 06:31:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcXTj-0005Ut-GI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 06:31:21 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::229]:64186) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcXTj-0005UY-AH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 06:31:19 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id b13so3516670wgh.0 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 03:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Jiri Slaby Message-ID: <5437B574.20101@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:31:16 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <54368FAA.9080906@suse.cz> <1412926708.11084.1.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> In-Reply-To: <1412926708.11084.1.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu is missing monitor List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann , Peter Maydell Cc: Andreas Faerber , QEMU Developers , Alexander Graf On 10/10/2014, 09:38 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Do, 2014-10-09 at 17:05 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 9 October 2014 14:37, Jiri Slaby wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> qemu in opensuse latest (factory) does not have monitor. Despite >>> libvte-devel is installed, it is not detected by qemu. The problem is >>> that configure looks for vte-2.90, but we have vte-2.91 in factory. The >>> attached patch fixes that for factory, but it's dirty, of course. >> >> Why the heck have the GTK folk made point releases end up >> needing their own pkg-config library name?? > > Good question. They should not do that in the first place unless they > have a ABI change (i.e. gtk2 -> gtk3 switch was a good reason). The > point release doesn't look like that though ... Note, that qemu is terribly broken with 2.91. The monitor window is over 30 000 pixels in height. So there is perhaps some weird API/ABI change. Built against 2.90, it works fine. > I'd suggest to try sort that with vte upstream before trying to hack > around this in qemu (and if we have to we'll need to check for both 2.90 > and 2.91 because you don't know what version the user has installed). Ok, could you take care of that and sort that out? -- js suse labs