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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/1] Allow the building of VirtFS to be disabled
@ 2012-02-10  2:06 Meador Inge
  2012-02-10  2:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] ./configure: add option for disabling VirtFS Meador Inge
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From: Meador Inge @ 2012-02-10  2:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: aliguori, aneesh.kumar

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

* Changes from v1
  - Simplify the configure logic and support the standard behavior
    of defaulting virtfs="".  Changes suggested by Peter Maydell.

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

 Makefile  |    2 ++
 configure |   25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.7.6

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