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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:37:45 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111018113745.GE6655@truffala.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9D3EE5.8050402@suse.de>

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:55:01AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 18.10.2011 02:18, schrieb Alexander Graf:
> > We have several targets in the PPC tree now that basically require libfdt
> > to function properly, namely the pseries and the e500 targets. This dependency
> > will rather increase than decrease in the future, so I want to make sure
> > that people building shiny new 1.0 actually have libfdt installed to get
> > rid of a few ifdefs in the code.
> > 
> > Warning: This patch will likely make configure fail for people who don't
> > select their own --target-list, but don't have libfdt development packages
> > installed. However, we really need this new dependency to move on.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> 
> openSUSE 12.1 has libfdt1-devel, but you should set up a submodule and
> working build rules for Darwin, Haiku, etc. `make` doesn't fully work so
> I used custom scripts to build the right parts and to manually "install"
> the resulting binary and headers.

If there are build problems with libfdt on any platform let me know
about them.  I would like it to build clean as widely as possible, but
I don't have that great a diversity of build environments, so I have
to reply on bug reports.

-- 
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-18 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-18  0:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fail configure when libfdt is not available Alexander Graf
2011-10-18  6:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-18 19:26   ` Richard Henderson
2011-10-19  6:09     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-18  8:55 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-18  9:02   ` Alexander Graf
2011-10-18 18:30     ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-19  2:08       ` Alexander Graf
2011-10-18 11:37   ` David Gibson [this message]
2011-10-20 18:35     ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Gerd Hoffmann
2011-10-21  3:34       ` David Gibson
2011-10-21  7:11         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-10-21  7:34       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-24  2:22         ` David Gibson
2011-10-18  9:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell

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