Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Remove unnecessary CONFIG_EVENTFD preprocessor conditional to satisfy link

[Christopher Friedt]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 3 May 2016 at 02:14, Christopher Friedt <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> [ccing somebody else who ran into this, since I've figured out why.]
>>>
>>> On 3 May 2016 at 01:47, Christopher Friedt <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> The file ivshmem.c unconditionally references event_notifier_init_fd()
>>>> in util/event_notifier-posix.c, even if CONFIG_EVENTFD is not defined.
>>>
>>> Yes, but ivshmem.c is only built if CONFIG_IVSHMEM, and
>>> CONFIG_IVSHMEM is set (in default-configs/pci.mak) to CONFIG_EVENTFD.
>>> So if CONFIG_EVENTFD is not defined then we should never build ivshmem.o.
>>>
>>> The problem here is that you've run into a bug in QEMU's makefiles,
>>
>> That would explain things.



> Hmm. (Is it set the same for every config-devices.mak for
> every target you're trying to build?)

Ack - too late! I manually removed all of the *-softmmu/ directories
after doing a make clean, because they were still hanging around.
Rebuilding worked fine without PATCH 2/2.

Thanks!