Re: [PATCH v4 6/8] drop libxml2 checks since libxml is not actually used (for parallels)

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 21/01/2022 11.36, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> 
> For a long time, we assumed that libxml2 is necessary for parallels
> block format support (block/parallels*). However, this format actually
> does not use libxml [*]. Since this is the only user of libxml2 in
> whole QEMU tree, we can drop all libxml2 checks and dependencies too.
> 
> It is even more: --enable-parallels configure option was the only
> option which was silently ignored when it's (fake) dependency
> (libxml2) isn't installed.
> 
> Drop all mentions of libxml2.
> 
> [*] Actually the basis for libxml use were introduced in commit
>      ed279a06c53 ("configure: add dependency") but the implementation
>      was never merged:
>      https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/70227bbd-a517-70e9-714f-e6e0ec431be9@openvz.org/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Message-Id: <20220119090423.149315-1-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> [PMD: Updated description and adapted to use lcitool]
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
>   meson.build                                     | 6 ------
>   block/meson.build                               | 3 +--
>   meson_options.txt                               | 2 --
>   scripts/checkpatch.pl                           | 1 -
>   scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure | 1 -
>   scripts/coverity-scan/coverity-scan.docker      | 1 -
>   scripts/coverity-scan/run-coverity-scan         | 2 +-
>   7 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

I think this should touch ./scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh , too?

If you also remove it from that file:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>