Re: building qemu on a system with libxkbcommon installed but not xkeyboard-config produces an core dump

[Michael Tokarev]

01.02.2024 15:57, Peter Maydell пишет:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 12:50, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> > 01.02.2024 15:11, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > 31.01.2024 11:13, Zhang Wen:
> > > > With this patch, qemu requires keyboard-config when libxkbcommon is found on 
> > > > the system. So if the qemu is configured when libxkbcommon is installed
> > > > but not keyboard-config, the configure stage will produce an error message, 
> > > > thus avoid coredump in the build stage.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you're talking about.  What *is* keyboard-config anyway?
> > >
> > > On a debian system there's no such thing.  There's keyboard-configuration
> > > package but it has nothing to do with that.  It looks like if we apply
> > > such patch, it will be impossible to build qemu on debian.
> >
> > Aha, I found it.  On debian it is /usr/share/pkgconfig/keyboard-config.pc,
> > which is a part of xkb-data package.  And libxkbcommon Depends on xkb-data.
> > It looks like the distribution here is wrong, there should be no libxkbcommon
> > without xkb-data which includes keyboard-config.
>
> Are we talking about "keyboard-config" or "xkeyboard-config" here?
> The commit message says "keyboard-config" but the patch itself
> says "xkeyboard-config".

It is xkeyboard-config.pc, - I hit the same trap with the wrong commit
message.

$ dpkg -L xkb-data | fgrep .pc
/usr/share/pkgconfig/xkeyboard-config.pc
$ dpkg -s libxkbcommon0 | grep Depends
Depends: xkb-data, libc6 (>= 2.33)

/mjt