Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH trivial] configure: explicitly disable virtfs if softmmu=no

["M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>]

Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> writes:

> 11.06.2013 00:47, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> Or else
>> 
>>  ./configure --disable-system --enable-virtfs
>> 
>> (which makes no sense by its own but does not error out)
>> will fail to build, because it will define CONFIG_VIRTFS,
>> and the makefile will try to build virtfs-proxy-helper
>> manpage (but not the executable).
>
> The build fails in this case in a separate build tree, because
> the fsdev directory is not created and scripts/texi2pod.pl
> will be called with output = fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.pod,
> which can't be created because fsdev/ does not exist.
>

Hi,

I tried ./configure --disable-system --enable-virtfs and make. But didnt
face any build failure. Could you please share your build failure
information? virtfs-proxy-helper.1 is created inside the fsdev folder.

>> 
>> Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org
>> Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
>> ---
>>  configure |    2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>> index a3f0b7a..0ff0380 100755
>> --- a/configure
>> +++ b/configure
>> @@ -3423,6 +3423,8 @@ if test "$softmmu" = yes ; then
>>        tools="qemu-ga\$(EXESUF) $tools"
>>      fi
>>    fi
>> +else
>> +  virtfs=no
>>  fi
>>  
>>  # Mac OS X ships with a broken assembler
>>