Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] configure: Try to fix --static linking

2019-06-14 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 6/14/19 4:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 14:58, Alex Bennée wrote: > >> It would be nice to have a --static-user config flag and deprecate the >> --static flag. I don't think there is a decent use case for system >> emulation targets. > > It would be really tricky to

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] configure: Try to fix --static linking

2019-06-14 Thread Peter Maydell
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 14:58, Alex Bennée wrote: > It would be nice to have a --static-user config flag and deprecate the > --static flag. I don't think there is a decent use case for system > emulation targets. It would be really tricky to build half with static and half without: our configure

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] configure: Try to fix --static linking

2019-06-14 Thread Alex Bennée
Peter Maydell writes: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 08:27, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé > wrote: >> Apparently QEMU static linking is slowly bitroting. Obviously it >> depends the libraries an user has installed, anyway it seems there >> are not much testing done. > > The main reason for supporting

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] configure: Try to fix --static linking

2019-06-14 Thread Peter Maydell
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 08:27, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > Apparently QEMU static linking is slowly bitroting. Obviously it > depends the libraries an user has installed, anyway it seems there > are not much testing done. The main reason for supporting static linking is so we can build the