From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57757 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzmHa-0000Ue-Hb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:40:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzmHZ-0007Wt-6E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:40:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzmHY-0007Wg-U6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:40:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:40:12 +0200 From: Alon Levy Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] libcacard: initial commit Message-ID: <20110316084012.GB7413@playa.tlv.redhat.com> References: <1298460024-23591-1-git-send-email-alevy@redhat.com> <1298460024-23591-5-git-send-email-alevy@redhat.com> <4D7E3236.8050507@redhat.com> <20110314164010.GL31372@playa.tlv.redhat.com> <4D7F5ED0.70401@redhat.com> <20110315131409.GW31372@playa.tlv.redhat.com> <4D7F6D79.9090707@codemonkey.ws> <20110315142349.GB10553@playa.tlv.redhat.com> <4D807378.3010305@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D807378.3010305@redhat.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jes Sorensen Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:23:20AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 03/15/11 15:23, Alon Levy wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:45:29AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> On 03/15/2011 08:14 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > >>> > >>>> Alternatively the external apps that build against it should be taught > >>>> to link with the QEMU version. > >>>> > >>> That would require me to teach qemu's configure to build libcacard, possibly > >>> only libcacard (even though qemu doesn't need a lot of packages by itself, > >>> I still wouldn't want apt-get install spice-client to drag in qemu-kvm). > >> > >> Any reasonable packaging system can generate multiple binary > >> packages from a source source package without the binary packages > >> being implicit dependent on each other. > > > > of course, I was just saying it would be easier if qemu's configure system > > allowed this. > > It's really not far off, most of it is in the Makefiles. You really just > need to have a libcacard flag that is enabled per default (and is > required if one asks for --enable-smartcard), but can be switched off, > as well as a flag to not build the main bits. > > Patches are welcome :) > Yes, I plan to make some. But I think it's better I don't involve it in this series? it's already overdue by a year or so. I'll make send it as a separate patch. > Cheers, > Jes