Re: minimal "zero conf" build dockerfiles for fedora:latest and alpine:latest

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 12/01/21 23:37, John Snow wrote:
> - our configure file suggests bzip2 is an optional dependency (It's set 
> to 'auto') but meson will error out if it is not present at 
> configuration time:
> 
>      ../pc-bios/meson.build:5:2: ERROR: Program 'bzip2' not found

Yes, the configure option is for libbzip2, not bzip2.

Perhaps bzip2 could be required only if get_option('install_blobs') is 
true, I don't know.

> FROM alpine:latest
> 
> ENV PACKAGES \
>      wget \
>      xz \
>      python3 \
>      ninja \
>      gcc \
>      musl-dev \
>      pkgconfig \
>      glib-dev \
>      pixman-dev \
>      make \
>      bash \
>      perl
> 
> ENV QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS --disable-linux-user
> 
> RUN apk add $PACKAGES
> 
> RUN wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-5.2.0.tar.xz && \
>      tar xvJf qemu-5.2.0.tar.xz
> 
> WORKDIR /qemu-5.2.0
> RUN ./configure $QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS && \
>      make -j9

This should be added to the CI!

> - diffutils is required for the qapi-schema test, which runs at build time. 

This is not required by meson because technically it is not needed 
except for "make check".

Perhaps we could do

-if build_docs
+if build_docs and diff.found()

in tests/qapi-schema/meson.build.

Paolo