From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pc-bios/keymaps: Use the official xkb name for Arabic layout, not the legacy synonym
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:25:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2da43cc0-48dc-c04c-8aff-0c90b78a6157@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230620162024.1132013-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
On 6/20/23 18:20, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The xkb official name for the Arabic keyboard layout is 'ara'.
> However xkb has for at least the past 15 years also permitted it to
> be named via the legacy synonym 'ar'. In xkeyboard-config 2.39 this
> synoynm was removed, which breaks compilation of QEMU:
>
> FAILED: pc-bios/keymaps/ar
> /home/fred/qemu-git/src/qemu/build-full/qemu-keymap -f pc-bios/keymaps/ar -l ar
> xkbcommon: ERROR: Couldn't find file "symbols/ar" in include paths
> xkbcommon: ERROR: 1 include paths searched:
> xkbcommon: ERROR: /usr/share/X11/xkb
> xkbcommon: ERROR: 3 include paths could not be added:
> xkbcommon: ERROR: /home/fred/.config/xkb
> xkbcommon: ERROR: /home/fred/.xkb
> xkbcommon: ERROR: /etc/xkb
> xkbcommon: ERROR: Abandoning symbols file "(unnamed)"
> xkbcommon: ERROR: Failed to compile xkb_symbols
> xkbcommon: ERROR: Failed to compile keymap
>
> The upstream xkeyboard-config change removing the compat
> mapping is:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/commit/470ad2cd8fea84d7210377161d86b31999bb5ea6
>
> Make QEMU always ask for the 'ara' xkb layout, which should work on
> both older and newer xkeyboard-config. We leave the QEMU name for
> this keyboard layout as 'ar'; it is not the only one where our name
> for it deviates from the xkb standard name.
>
> Cc:qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell<peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Resolves:https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1709
> ---
> pc-bios/keymaps/meson.build | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-20 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-20 16:20 [PATCH] pc-bios/keymaps: Use the official xkb name for Arabic layout, not the legacy synonym Peter Maydell
2023-06-20 16:25 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2023-06-20 16:50 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-06-23 10:28 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-06-23 15:21 ` Alex Bennée
2023-06-23 15:30 ` Peter Maydell
2023-06-23 15:54 ` Alex Bennée
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