Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] xen: link against xentoolcore

[Ian Jackson]

Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH 1/8] xen: link against xentoolcore"):
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The xentoolcore library was just committed to xen.git#staging, so at
> > least this patch (or something like it) should go into qemu RSN.
> 
> I don't think it is necessary to do anything in qemu. The linker should
> find on its own the new libxentoolcore as long as an option
> -Wl,-rpath-link= provide the right path to xentoolcore when building
> qemu from xen.git.

But, the -rpath-link= specification in libxendevicemodel refers not to
the xen.git build tree, but to the eventual installed copy.

In my tests, this does in fact break the build.

>  In other cases, the pkg-config files should be
> enough (configure doesn't need to known about a new xentoolcore.pc
> file).

In that case, yes, the .pc works.

Ian.