[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/1] Allow the building of VirtFS to be disabled

[Meador Inge <meadori@codesourcery.com>]

There have been reports [1, 2] where folks have had issues building
VirtFS and the virtio backend on older systems.  I personally saw
problems due to the use of features (struct statfs f_frsize field,
fdopendir, O_NOATIME) in this code that are not available on much older
Linux systems.  Given, the system I ran into this on is ancient (RH8 sysroot),
but I still need to build QEMU on it nonetheless.

This patch adds a new configure option for disabling the building of
VirtFS all together.  Tested by building with and without --disable-virtfs
on older (RH8 sysroot) and newer systems (x64 Fedora 16).

[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-12/msg00171.html
[2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg00404.html

Meador Inge (1):
  ./configure: add option for disabling VirtFS

 Makefile  |    4 ++++
 configure |   16 +++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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