Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/configure: Check if pixman is present on the system

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> 01/13/15 7:17 PM >>>
>QEMU upstream requires the use of pixman. When pixman is not present the
>system, the configure of QEMU will fail with:
>
>ERROR: pixman not present. Your options:
>(1) Preferred: Install the pixman devel package (any recent
>distro should have packages as Xorg needs pixman too).
>(2) Fetch the pixman submodule, using:
>git submodule update --init pixman
>
>I think we can use by default the version on the system. So check it
>a Xen configuration time to avoid a build issue later.

Since qemu building isn't a required part of building the tools, is a check in
the tools configure process really an appropriate thing to do?

Jan


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