[Qemu-devel] Re: Win2k host problem with {get, free}{addr, name}info()

[Blue Swirl]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 08:32 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> Sort of, gnulib needs some configuration before use. I made some hacks
>> to avoid that and also suppressed warnings by overriding QEMU_CFLAGS,
>> but it's getting ugly.
>>
>> Actually, there's no 'configure' in gnulib HEAD even though
>> docs/INSTALL mentions that. Strange.
>
> gnulib's docs/INSTALL is a template for packages using autotools, it's not
> for gnulib itself.
>
>> Is it possible to apply local patches to a submodule tree?
>
> It is not needed; to explain this, you need to go one step back.
>
> gnulib's submodule is never built directly.  It only lives in the build tree
> so that it can be consulted by gnulib-tool, but it doesn't even make it to
> the release tarballs.  Instead, gnulib-tool should be invoked after checking
> out superproject.git, and copies selected gnulib files into superproject's
> checkout (these files are .gitignore'd).

gnulib-tool wants to patch configure.ac. After adding an empty one and
running "gnulib-tool --import getaddrinfo inet_ntop", it still remains
empty. Not very clever. There are a lot of .c files, some .h files and
also a lot of .m4 files.

I think we want to avoid this path.