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

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:39:45AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 07:11 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> 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?
> 
> It's quite annoying as a user to have configure appear to succeed and
> then the build to fail due to a missing dependency (whether in a 3rd
> party component or not).
> 
> We could make this check conditional on --with-qemu-system not being
> given, but given the library is readily available I don't think its the
> end of the world to have a potentially unnecessary check.
> 
> A far more heavy weight (but probably better) solution would be to
> arrange for the clone (and necessary downloads) + submodule configure to
> happen at configure rather than build time. That's a much bigger job
> though and I wouldn't expect anyone to take that on unless they are
> super duper keen.
> 

Or we can state clearly in README / INSTALL that Xen's configure doesn't
check for external projects' dependencies so that we don't end up adding
check for every new dependency in QEMU. Just my 2 cents.

Wei.

> Ian.
> 

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