Re: [PATCH] make-release: do not ship dtc sources

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 6:00 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Keep the wrap file so that it can be used with --enable-download,
> > but do not ship the sources anymore with either archive-source.sh
> > or make-release.
>
> Can you explain this use case in a little more detail? I'm
> clear on the two poles of:
>  (1) dependency isn't in all our supported distros, so we need
>      to provide sources and handle building it ourselves
>  (2) dependency is in all our supported distros, so we don't
>      need any special support because meson will find the
>      system library and headers
>
> but I'm not sure when we'd want something in the middle, which
> is what this sounds like?

I kept the .wrap file because --enable-fdt=internal, currently, forces
the build to use an embedded static libfdt and I wasn't sure if
anybody was using it.

If there is anyone it could be Stefan's win32 builds. I didn't want to
mess those up. If he's not, I'm happy to drop it as well.

Paolo