Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv5 06/16] aio / timers: Untangle include files

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:14:30AM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> >Some tips on which packages to install:
> >
> >>host big endian   no
> >>gprof enabled     no
> >>sparse enabled    no
> >>strip binaries    no
> >>profiler          no
> >>static build      no
> >
> >All the ones above are okay, fine to ignore.
> >
> >>SDL support       no
> >
> >Do you have libsdl1.2-dev installed?
> 
> ii  libsdl1.2-dev                             1.2.14-6.4ubuntu3
> 
> but still doesn't work
> 
> >>vde support       no
> >
> >You need libvde-dev and/or libvdeplug2-dev.
> 
> ii  libvde-dev                                2.2.3-3build2
> 
> but still doesn't work
> 
> >>spice support     no (/)
> >
> >libspice-protocol-dev and/or libspice-server-dev (can't remember).
> 
> ii  gir1.2-spice-client-glib-2.0              0.9-0ubuntu1 GObject
> for communicating with Spice servers (GObject-Introspection)
> ii  gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-2.0               0.9-0ubuntu1 GTK2
> widget for SPICE clients (GObject-Introspection)
> ii  gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0               0.9-0ubuntu1 GTK3
> widget for SPICE clients (GObject-Introspection)
> ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-1                0.9-0ubuntu1 GObject
> for communicating with Spice servers (runtime library)
> ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev              0.9-0ubuntu1 GObject
> for communicating with Spice servers (development files)
> ii  libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1                 0.9-0ubuntu1 GTK2
> widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)
> ii  libspice-client-gtk-2.0-dev               0.9-0ubuntu1 GTK2
> widget for SPICE clients (development files)
> ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1                 0.9-0ubuntu1 GTK3
> widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)
> ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev               0.9-0ubuntu1 GTK3
> widget for SPICE clients (development files)
> ii  libspice-protocol-dev                     0.10.1-1 SPICE
> protocol headers
> ii  libspice-server-dev                       0.10.0-1 Header files
> and development documentation for spice-server
> ii  libspice-server1                          0.10.0-1 Implements
> the server side of the SPICE protocol
> 
> but still doesn't work

Spice can be tricky because you need a sufficiently new version of the
headers.

In general the process of troubleshooting this is to run ./configure and
then chase up the unexpected "no" results in config.log where you can
see the compile test that failed.

Stefan