Re: Regressions in build process introduced since August

[Stefan Weil]

Am 23.11.20 um 17:20 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:

> On 23/11/20 16:41, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > Relying on pkg-config should be our strong preference. I expect 
> > > we're doing
> > > the old fashioned library check just for historical reasons, but 
> > > even RHEL-7
> > > supports pkg-config for libjpeg. So I think we're safe to just 
> > > unconditionally
> > > rely on pkg-config these days and thus have it "just work" for cross 
> > > compiles
> > > too.
> >
> > For that matter I think we can also rely on  pkg-config for sasl too, as
> > again all our supported platforms have a new enough cyrus-sasl to have
> > a pkg-config file present these days.
>
> Yes, I agree.  However we have at least -lmpathpersist that does not 
> have a pkg-config file.  In the meanwhile I'll integrate Stefan's 
> patch.  Stefan, is libjpeg the only one that is affected in your build 
> environment?
>
> Paolo

Yes, as far as I see currently only libjpeg is affected.

Thanks,
Stefan