Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/45] Include reorganization + PCI patch queue

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 06:13:11PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > And how does it conflicts with Alex's ppc pull request? It is a fast
> > forward from origin/master as of now (commit a8a826a, exec: refactor
> > cpu_restore_state, 2012-12-04), and that includes Alex's commits...
> 
> It's not a conflict.  You both have problems with your pull requests
> because I assume neither of you have libfdt installed which means a
> bunch of ppc is not being built.
> 
> We really ought to pull in fdt as a submodule to prevent this type of
> thing...

Same applies to any library.  How about an in-tree script
with configure flags that we want tested instead?
Then it would fail instead of disabling silently.