Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH slirp 0/5] Make it a standalone project

[Peter Maydell]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 21:38, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Peter Maydell, le dim. 10 févr. 2019 21:35:37 +0000, a ecrit:
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 20:58, <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > As discussed earlier in "[PATCH for-3.2 00/41] RFC: slirp: make it
> > > again a standalone project" and other threads, it would be useful to
> > > make slirp a separate project (the submodule approach was discarded)
> > > for various projects to share.
> >
> > > The following patches add meson build system (if necessary for older
> > > distros, autotools could be added - however I believe python & ninja
> > > are generally available on the QEMU supported platforms)
> >
> > Do you really need to make QEMU add an extra build dependency
> > just to use a different build system?
>
> AIUI, this patches series is meant for the slirp repository, not the
> QEMU repository. I.e. just to show how it'll look like, until a project
> it settled somewhere and the discussion can happen there.

Yes, but we're going to be pulling it in as a submodule,
so a split out libslirp in its own repository with extra
build dependencies is harder to work with than one without.

thanks
-- PMM