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(-) >