Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: fix libcap detection

[Blue Swirl]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 31 July 2012 17:33, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
>> please apply http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/171067/,
>> or we'll get a 4th bug fix for this.
>>
>> Peter sent a series with this one and more patches on
>> 2012-07-18 (1st: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/171686/).
>> At least the first 10 of them should be applied.
>
> More accurately:
>  * apply the valgrind patch first:
>    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/174029/
>  * then apply the 11 patch configure series
>
> I believe the valgrind test patch should fix the issues Blue Swirl
> was seeing with the 11-patch series (and I tested it on debian
> squeeze which I think has the same gcc Blue was using).
>
> Patch 11/11 does enable -Werror on test code in a way which
> causes configure to fail noisily if it encounters a warning:
> I think it's better to commit this early rather than late
> because then we can fix any lingering problems with odd
> hosts or configurations which I missed. (The noisy failure
> includes a clear message about how to work around it in
> the interim, which is better than our current situation IMHO.)

I'm still testing, at least up to 10/11 everything works.

>
> thanks
> -- PMM