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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Include and build libfdt
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:38:58 +0100
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Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>

On Wednesday 10 June 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:27:30PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 June 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:38:12PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > > Inlcude libfdt in source tree, and build it if not already available.
> > >
> > > what makes libfdt different than everything else that we link with?
> > > Why do we have to have a in-tree copy of that?
> >
> > AFAIK libfdt is still absent from current releases of common mainstream
> > distros, and qemu is going to become increasingly useless without it.
>
> This is an argument for both including it in our source release,
> and pushing it to get shipped as a stand alone package. I believe the later
> is a much more sane approach long term

Agreed. The configure check will prefer an installed libfdt, so hopefully the 
in-tree copy will go away over timer.

Paul