Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] DTC as submodule

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 April 2013 12:08, Edgar E. Iglesias <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:02:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> For submodules that do have autoconf-generated scripts in the repository
>> (I think both of them do, in our case), we should trust upstream's
>> configure script.  That's what everyone has been testing the git
>> repository with.
>
> I downloaded the qemu-1.4.1 release and looked at the pixman subdir. It
> doesnt come with a generated configure script, but has a autogen.sh script to
> run autoconf itself. My understanding was that, like you say, the user
> shouldn't need to run autoconf to generate configure, it should have been
> provided. Am I missing something?

Our release notes from when we put pixman in:
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.3#Build_dependencies
say that you need autoconf if you're using the built in submodule.
I think that's just documentation of the current situation rather
than an explicit decision that it's the right approach, though.

-- PMM