From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53319) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIccp-0003SA-FF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:02:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIccj-0006Qu-Ue for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:02:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIccj-0006Qn-Pl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:02:49 -0400 References: <1436354392-26357-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <559D4011.1010302@redhat.com> <20150724125238.GA12473@redhat.com> <55B23556.2080302@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55B23774.7060401@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:02:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/12] Final changes for 2.4-rc0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers 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