On 1/13/21 3:34 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 13/01/21 15:23, Helge Deller wrote: >> In debian many packages directly and indirectly depend on the qemu >> source package, because it provides - beside the emulator - various >> userspace tools which are necessary natively, like e.g. qemu-img. >> In the past building those tools failed on hppa because the configure script >> detected that neither native TCG nor TCG interpreter support was possible. >> As such the configuration aborted and no tools were built. >> So, the change should still make it possible to enable building the userspace >> tools. > > You could still build those, with --disable-system --disable-user.
Yes, since the tools are independend of the emulation, it should be possible to build those independend if system/user is enabled or disabled. > Or we could rig the configure/meson scripts to do that automatically > if no accelerator is supported. That would be the expected behaviour. Helge