Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/9] configure: Fix softmmu --static linking

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 6/14/19 12:07 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Apparently QEMU static linking is slowly bitroting. Obviously it
> depends the libraries an user has installed, anyway it seems there
> are not much testing done.
> 
> This series fixes few issues, enough to build QEMU on a Ubuntu
> 18.04 host.
> 
> Peter commented on v1:
> 
>   The main reason for supporting static linking is so we can build
>   the user-mode emulators. Almost always the problems with
>   static linking the softmmu binaries and the tools are
>   issues with the distro's packaging of the static libraries
>   (pkg-config files which specify things that don't work for
>   static is a common one).
> 
>   So we could put in a lot of checking of "is what pkg-config
>   tells us broken". Or we could just say "we don't support static
>   linking for anything except the usermode binaries". We
>   should probably phase in deprecation of that because it's
>   possible somebody's using it seriously, but it seems like
>   a fairly weird thing to do to me.
> 
> I share his view on this (restricting static linking to qemu-user)
> but since the work was already done when I read his comment, I still
> send the v2.

Alex, any comment?

Patch #1 could go via trivial@, the other should be made obsolete by the
Paolo's switch to Meson.

> Since v1:
> - pkg-config already use the '--static' argument, do not add it twice
> - Fixed x86_64 host builds (was missing GTK and OpenGL patches)
> - Added Niels R-b tag on the first patch
> - The Travis-CI job now succeeds:
>   https://travis-ci.org/philmd/qemu/jobs/545653697 (6 min 7 sec)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (9):
>   configure: Only generate GLUSTERFS variables if glusterfs is usable
>   configure: Link test before auto-enabling GlusterFS libraries
>   configure: Link test before auto-enabling libusb library
>   configure: Link test before auto-enabling libusbredir library
>   configure: Link test before auto-enabling PulseAudio library
>   configure: Link test before auto-enabling OpenGL libraries
>   configure: Link test before auto-enabling GTK libraries
>   tests/docker: Kludge for missing libunistring.so symlink on Ubuntu
>     18.04
>   .travis.yml: Test softmmu static linking
> 
>  .travis.yml                                |   5 +
>  configure                                  | 121 ++++++++++++++++-----
>  tests/docker/dockerfiles/ubuntu1804.docker |   4 +
>  3 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>