Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] libcacard: initial commit

[Alon Levy]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:23:20AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 03/15/11 15:23, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:45:29AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> On 03/15/2011 08:14 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Alternatively the external apps that build against it should be taught
> >>>> to link with the QEMU version.
> >>>>
> >>> That would require me to teach qemu's configure to build libcacard, 
> >>> possibly
> >>> only libcacard (even though qemu doesn't need a lot of packages by itself,
> >>> I still wouldn't want apt-get install spice-client to drag in qemu-kvm).
> >>
> >> Any reasonable packaging system can generate multiple binary
> >> packages from a source source package without the binary packages
> >> being implicit dependent on each other.
> > 
> > of course, I was just saying it would be easier if qemu's configure system
> > allowed this.
> 
> It's really not far off, most of it is in the Makefiles. You really just
> need to have a libcacard flag that is enabled per default (and is
> required if one asks for --enable-smartcard), but can be switched off,
> as well as a flag to not build the main bits.
> 
> Patches are welcome :)
> 

Yes, I plan to make some. But I think it's better I don't involve it in this 
series?
it's already overdue by a year or so. I'll make send it as a separate patch.

> Cheers,
> Jes