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Re: If your networking is failing after updating to the latest git versi
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: If your networking is failing after updating to the latest git version of QEMU... |
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Mon, 3 Oct 2022 10:26:02 +0100 |
On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 at 10:09, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
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> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
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> > On 29/09/2022 04.32, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:06 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
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> >>> Jason, Marc-André, could we improve the buildsys check or display
> >>> a more helpful information from the code instead?
> >> It looks to me we need to improve the build.
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> > I'm not sure there is anything to improve in the build system -
> > configure/meson.build are just doing what they should: Pick the
> > default value for "slirp" if the user did not explicitly specify
> > "--enable-slirp".
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> Shouldn't it be the other way round and fail to configure unless the
> user explicitly calls --disable-slirp?
Our standard pattern for configure options is:
--enable-foo : check for foo; if it can't be enabled, fail configure
--disable-foo : don't even check for foo, and don't build it in
no option given : check for foo, decide whether to build in support if
it's present
-- PMM