On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:23:20AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 03/15/11 15:23, Alon Levy wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:45:29AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> On 03/15/2011 08:14 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > >>> > >>>> Alternatively the external apps that build against it should be taught > >>>> to link with the QEMU version. > >>>> > >>> That would require me to teach qemu's configure to build libcacard, > >>> possibly > >>> only libcacard (even though qemu doesn't need a lot of packages by itself, > >>> I still wouldn't want apt-get install spice-client to drag in qemu-kvm). > >> > >> Any reasonable packaging system can generate multiple binary > >> packages from a source source package without the binary packages > >> being implicit dependent on each other. > > > > of course, I was just saying it would be easier if qemu's configure system > > allowed this. > > It's really not far off, most of it is in the Makefiles. You really just > need to have a libcacard flag that is enabled per default (and is > required if one asks for --enable-smartcard), but can be switched off, > as well as a flag to not build the main bits. > > Patches are welcome :) >
Yes, I plan to make some. But I think it's better I don't involve it in this series? it's already overdue by a year or so. I'll make send it as a separate patch. > Cheers, > Jes
