Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] crypto: require nettle >= 1.5.0 for building QEMU

[Eric Blake]

On 07/18/2018 07:03 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> nettle 2.7.1 was released in 2013 and all the distros that are build
> target platforms for QEMU [1] include it:
>
>    RHEL-7: 2.7.1
>    Debian (Stretch): 3.3
>    Debian (Jessie): 2.7.1
>    OpenBSD (ports): 3.4
>    FreeBSD (ports): 3.4
>    OpenSUSE Leap 15: 3.4
>    Ubuntu (Xenial): 3.2
>    macOS (Homebrew): 3.4
>
> Based on this, it is reasonable to require nettle >= 2.7.1 in QEMU
> which allows for some conditional version checks in the code to be
> removed.
>
> [1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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