Re: [Qemu-devel] edk2 fails to compile in v4.0.0-rc2

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 04/05/19 12:59, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Am Fri, 5 Apr 2019 12:49:15 +0200
> schrieb Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>:
> 
>> The EDK2 submodule was added for UEFI testing, you don't need to compile
>> it to build/use QEMU.
>>
>> How did you end up compiling it?
> 
> The qemu.spec file has this since a very long time:
> make -C roms efirom ${unrelated_settings}
> 
> This used to work still in January with 
> c9d18c1c150c84e7a976df989ad04ddf01083f46.

This is not a QEMU build failure, but an issue in the downstream
packaging that not only tries to build QEMU, but performs a maintainer
build on binary artifacts.

I responded in more detail under Phil's thread

[PATCH for-4.0 v2 0/2] roms: Rename the EFIROM variable and let it be
overridable

Thanks
Laszlo