Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/14] SCSI changes for 2014-06-18

[ronnie sahlberg]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 18/06/2014 17:53, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>
>> Then you probably need to fix the configure test ;-) This is
>> Ubuntu Trusty so really pretty recent (it's my main x86 build
>> machine, not some oddball platform); libiscsi-dev 1.4.0-3.
>
>
> This is a very old release.  I'll apply Peter's patch to disable libiscsi
> for pre-1.9.0 versions and respin the pull request.
>
> I didn't want to do that because 1.4.0->1.9.0 breaks ABI, but Peter thinks
> that versions before 1.8.0 are not reliable anyway.

+1

Versions prior are good for causal use but Peter is the authority on
production use here.
I think qemu should have a configure check and just force disable
iscsi support if libiscsi < 1.9.0


>
> If Ubuntu wants to distribute both 1.4.0 and 1.9.0, they can move 1.9.0
> header files to a separate directory using pkgconfig (1.4.0 does not support
> pkgconfig).
>
> Paolo
>