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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/12] Final changes for 2.4-rc0
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:31:12PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 July 2015 at 14:10, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:06:44PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On 24 July 2015 at 14:00, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> >> > On 24 July 2015 at 13:53, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> Ok, then it looks like a preexisting problem indeed.
> >> >
> >> > Well, not entirely. This set of configure flags used to work,
> >> > and now it does not. That's a regression.
> >>
> >> In particular, configure --static --disable-tools --disable-system
> >> now fails, and I think that's a perfectly sensible set of options.
> >
> > Presumably you have previously figured out which static libs you
> > needed to install on your build machine previously though ?
> > As that command line fails to verify presence of any static
> > libraries at all - configure doesn't stop and tell me to install
> > any static libraries at all on my machine which has no static
> > libs present - it just fails to build later
> 
> Yes, but the set of required static libs for linux-user is pretty
> tiny, and it doesn't generally change. In particular since we
> don't want to link gnutls into linux-user we shouldn't be requiring
> the user to scrape up a static lib of it to keep things working.
> Requiring gnutls at all for these configure options is just a bug
> (in configure or the makefile).

Ok, I'll send a patch to auto-disable it when missing

Regards,
Daniel
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