Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] drop libxml2 checks since libxml is not actually used (for parallels)

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 1/20/22 12:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> 
> For a long time, we assumed that libxml2 is neecessary for parallels
> block format support (block/parallels*). However, this format actually
> does not use libxml [*]. Since this is the only user of libxml2 in
> while qemu tree, we can drop all libxml2 checks and dependencies too.
> 
> It is even more: --enable-parallels configure option was the only
> option which was silently ignored when it's (fake) dependency
> (libxml2) isn't installed.
> 
> Drop all mentions of libxml2.
> 
> [*] Actually the basis for libxml use were merged in commit 25bfd5a75
>     but the implementation was never merged:
>     
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/70227bbd-a517-70e9-714f-e6e0ec431be9@openvz.org/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Message-Id: <20220119090423.149315-1-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
> [PMD: Updated description and adapted to use lcitool]
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
>  meson.build                                     | 6 ------
>  block/meson.build                               | 3 +--
>  meson_options.txt                               | 2 --
>  scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure | 1 -
>  scripts/coverity-scan/coverity-scan.docker      | 1 -
>  scripts/coverity-scan/run-coverity-scan         | 2 +-
>  6 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>