Re: [patch] fix qemu-kvm to build when gdbstub is disabled

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
>> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The latest changes to qemu-kvm breaks miserably if one tries to build
>>> without CONFIG_GDBSTUB.
>>>
>>> Jes
>>>     
>>
>> --- qemu-kvm.orig/vl.c
>> +++ qemu-kvm/vl.c
>> @@ -4417,13 +4417,11 @@
>>          }
>>          if (cpu_can_run(env))
>>              ret = qemu_cpu_exec(env);
>> -#ifndef CONFIG_GDBSTUB
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Don't know why change #ifdef to #ifndef in upstream, and I remember it
>> should be ifdef before. I believe this stuff should be compiled only
>> if CONFIG_GDBSTUB is defined.    
> 
> This was introduced by
> 
> commit 704aec581c1683750e313832ba3aa4813d59cbd0
> Author: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Nov 27 17:23:27 2008 +0800
> 
>    Build fix for !CONFIG_GDBSTUB case
>      Once CONFIG_GDBSTUB not configured, compile will generate error
> 
> In upstream.  Please fix it in upstream and qemu-kvm.git will get the
> fix from there.

Given that CONFIG_GDBSTUB is always true upstream, I tend to say:
Finally drop it upstream and keep this (or a more arch-local) workaround
for missing ia64 gdbstub support downstream.

Jan

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