On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:36:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 22/09/2013 15:37, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto: > > Detect presence of IASL compiler and use it > > to process ASL source. If not there, use pre-compiled > > files in-tree. Add script to update the in-tree files. > > > > Note: distros are known to silently update iasl > > so detect correct iasl flags for the installed version on each run as > > opposed to at configure time. > > This is not any different from a C compiler, which is likely updated > much much more often than iasl.
Yes but it's not a theoretical issue: we did catch iasl changing flags semantics on the fly, once. I think compilers don't do this as a norm :) > However, I don't feel strongly at all > about this. > > Paolo