On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 06:13:11PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > > > And how does it conflicts with Alex's ppc pull request? It is a fast > > forward from origin/master as of now (commit a8a826a, exec: refactor > > cpu_restore_state, 2012-12-04), and that includes Alex's commits... > > It's not a conflict. You both have problems with your pull requests > because I assume neither of you have libfdt installed which means a > bunch of ppc is not being built. > > We really ought to pull in fdt as a submodule to prevent this type of > thing...
Same applies to any library. How about an in-tree script with configure flags that we want tested instead? Then it would fail instead of disabling silently.