Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] configure: use pkg-config for obtaining xen version

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 16/03/17 21:20, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >> Instead of trying to guess the Xen version to use by compiling various
> >> test programs first just ask the system via pkg-config. Only if it
> >> can't return the version fall back to the test program scheme.
> > 
> > That's OK, but why did you remove the Xen unstable test?
> 
> >From Xen 4.9 on pkg-config will return the needed information. There is
> no longer a need for a test program to determine the Xen version. After
> all this was the main objective of my series adding the pkg-config
> files to Xen.

I was going to say something like "yeah, but is pkg-config always
available?" In reality, QEMU already has pkg-config as build
dependency, so I guess there is no problem with that.

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