Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/12] Final changes for 2.4-rc0

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 24/07/2015 15:00, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > I'm happy to fix configure to check that gnutls has working static
> > > libs, but we do have a much broader pre-existing problem in this respect.
> > > So it seems people wanting todo static builds currently have to deal with
> > > installing all the correct static bits upfront or manually disabling
> > > features in configure.
> >
> > 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.

Yes, it's indeed adding a new optional build prerequisite for the tools,
and like all other prerequisites you need to install the static version
manually.  But special-casing gnutls makes little sense when the same
problem is present for all other libraries.

Paolo