On 09/25/12 12:48, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 September 2012 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 09/25/12 11:31, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> For me "not a standard library package on RHEL5" is a strong argument >>> against adding a hard dependency. (For instance, most of the compute >>> cluster machines here are RHEL5 and it would be pretty awkward to >>> deal with manually building a dependent library.) >> >> Why it is that a big deal? Whatever is used to distribute qemu to the >> cluster machines (local yum repo?) can be used to distribute pixman too, no? > > There's a big leap between "run configure, put the qemu executable > in some generally available directory" and "you have to first get > and build some third party library, install it somewhere, tell > configure where you put it, then build qemu, then make sure that > not just the qemu executable but also this third party library > are on all the machines". At the moment you can build qemu without > any non-system dependencies, and we should have a really good > reason for breaking that.
Hmm, we could import a pixman copy into the qemu tree and use that as fallback if we don't find pixman installed on the system ... cheers, Gerd
