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From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/configure: Check if pixman is present
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:28:43 +0000
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On 14/01/15 12:24, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Right. So the check for glib in the configure for ARM is not necessary
when --with-system-qemu is used.

Might be interesting to avoid checking dependency that is not useful.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall