Ping... Any comments on the v3 patch? http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg01236.html
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Meador Inge <mead...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > There have been reports [1, 2] where folks have had issues building > VirtFS and the virtio backend on older systems. I personally saw > problems due to the use of features (struct statfs f_frsize field, > fdopendir, O_NOATIME) in this code that are not available on much older > Linux systems. Given, the system I ran into this on is ancient (RH8 sysroot), > but I still need to build QEMU on it nonetheless. > > This patch adds a new configure option for disabling the building of > VirtFS all together. Tested by building with and without --disable-virtfs > on older (RH8 sysroot) and newer systems (x64 Fedora 16). > > [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-12/msg00171.html > [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg00404.html > > * Changes from v2 > - Use 'test "$foo" = yes && test "$bar" = yes' instead of > '"$foo" = "yes" -a "$bar" = "yes"'. > * Changes from v1 > - Simplify the configure logic and support the standard behavior > of defaulting virtfs="". Changes suggested by Peter Maydell. > > Meador Inge (1): > ./configure: add option for disabling VirtFS > > Makefile | 2 ++ > configure | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ > 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.7.7.6 > > -- # Meador
