On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 at 06:35, Zhang Wen <zhw2101...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm building my own system following the Linux From Scratch package, which is > at > https://www.linuxfromscratch.org. > I accidently built libxkbcommon package but not xkeyboard-config > package, and then > while building qemu I saw this problem.
I found this interesting commit in FreeBSD: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=490981 "Add a run time dependency on x11/xkeyboard-config in x11/libxkbcommon. While not strictly necessary, this is recommended upstream, since almost all uses of libxkbcommon also needs xkeyboard-config. This is similar to how it is done in other distributions. This solves issues when graphics/xpdf4 is installed without a desktop or graphical environment, as well as other places." That suggests that the intention of X11 upstream is that if a distro provides libxkbcommon then it should also provide xkeyboard-config, and if the distro doesn't do that then various things will not work correctly, not just QEMU. Looking at the Linux From Scratch website I see that their libxkbcommon page https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libxkbcommon.html says: # Required # xkeyboard-config-2.41 (runtime) So LFS agrees that xkeyboard-config is a required dependency. My inclination is therefore to say that "libxkbcommon is present but one of its required dependencies is missing" is not really a situation we need to change QEMU to handle. thanks -- PMM
