Re: [PATCH 2/3] cirrus.yml: Compile macOS and FreeBSD with -Werror

[Thomas Huth]

On 27/07/2020 10.30, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 06:44, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like it could be done, indeed. But I wonder whether we really
>> really want to silence the warnings here? We'd hide the information to
>> the users that sasl is apparently disliked by Apple and might get
>> removed on macOS in the future.
>>
>> Maybe we should rather change the "configure" script to disable sasl by
>> default on macOS unless the user explicitely specified --enable-vnc-sasl ?
> 
> Does the Homebrew packaging of QEMU depend on and use a Homebrew
> packaged sasl, or rely on the system sasl ?

I don't have a Mac, but looking at
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/qemu.rb it
seems like they don't do anything special with regards to vnc ... so I
guess the answer is "they use system sasl" ?

 Thomas