Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] build: fix failure when host provides too old libfdt

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 16/04/2018 01:05, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi, I already hit this problem on Shippable and tried to resolve it for 2.10;
> and shamefully hit it again yesterday on a Debian 8 host with distrib libfdt
> installed. I wondered how to fix this without root access and realized my
> previous Shippable kludge wasn't the best fix :)
> 
> Here we go adding the QEMU_LDFLAGS to enforce local libfdt in library path
> before the system one.
> This time it looks like the correct fix, also scalable for other libraries.
> 
> It would be great to have QEMU 2.12 buildable in Debian<9, but nobody
> complained since 2.10 so this can wait 2.13 (this is not a regression 
> neither).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> Jan Kiszka (1):
>   build: Silence dtc directory creation
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (3):
>   configure: Really use local libfdt if the system one is too old
>   configure: Display if libfdt is from system or git
>   shippable: Remove Debian 8 libfdt kludge
> 
>  configure      | 15 +++++++++------
>  Makefile       |  2 +-
>  rules.mak      |  2 +-
>  .shippable.yml |  8 --------
>  4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 

Queued all four, thanks!

Paolo