Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] configure: use pkg-config for obtaining xen version

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 17/03/17 19:33, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 16/03/17 21:20, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> Instead of trying to guess the Xen version to use by compiling various
>>>> test programs first just ask the system via pkg-config. Only if it
>>>> can't return the version fall back to the test program scheme.
>>>
>>> That's OK, but why did you remove the Xen unstable test?
>>
>> >From Xen 4.9 on pkg-config will return the needed information. There is
>> no longer a need for a test program to determine the Xen version. After
>> all this was the main objective of my series adding the pkg-config
>> files to Xen.
> 
> I was going to say something like "yeah, but is pkg-config always
> available?" In reality, QEMU already has pkg-config as build
> dependency, so I guess there is no problem with that.
> 
> Please add a note about this to the commit message.
> 

Okay.


Juergen

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