Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 12/23] acpi: add rules to compile ASL source

[Paolo Bonzini]

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.  However, I don't feel strongly at all
about this.

Paolo