Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Jerone Young wrote:
> So I forgot to CC all the interested parties on this list (sorry about
> that I wasn't thinking at the time), but I did start up a conversation
> on linuxppc-dev on the subject of splitting out libfdt from dtc. Mainly
> to get the thought of what the dtc folks thought about splitting out
> libfdt.
>
> The outcome of this discussion is the point of libfdt is to be
> integrated into different projects. I could not make a good argument at
> all as to why it should be split out (actually I did a terrible job at
> it :-)). A good analogy was made also as this is "equivalent to
> splitting libcrypto out of openssl".
>
> So the concessious from others in the libfdt community is the it should
> go in the project. This would be in line with what Hollis has been
> saying on the list.
>
> Now for us we can do one of the following options:
> 1) Integrate libfdt into our kvm-userspace
>    or qemu (which would then require going upstream qemu folks also agree).
>
> 2) Can use wget or something to first grab the dtc source and get libfdt
> from it. Then place in our make file and build it. As well as point
> cflags & ldflags to it. (This can be done, though I wanted to avoid
> going this route)
>
>   

We definitely won't make the build so complicated as to depend on wget 
and Internet connectivity, so we'll just plant the tree in 
kvm-userspace.git.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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