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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] Fix static linking for cU


From: Yann E. MORIN
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] Fix static linking for cURL and SDL
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 18:28:14 +0200
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Hello All,

On Monday 03 September 2012 17:44:51 Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 3 September 2012 16:41, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The only use case for QEMU's --static compilation I know is linux-user,
> > and that doesn't need cURL or SDL AFAIK. Shouldn't we rather sanitize
> > our configure-time checks to only look for the actually needed stuff
> > than making sure that unnecessary dependencies are generated nicely?
> 
> In particular it might be nice to be able to build in a single
> run both (a) dynamically linked softmmu targets and (b) statically
> linked linux-user targets (and maybe even also (c) dynamically
> linked linux-user targets?).
> 
> Personally I think it might indeed be a good idea to just say
> "statically linked softmmu isn't supported" and forbid it, unless
> somebody has a good use case for it...

I personnally have such a use-case: provide run-everywhere qemu softmmu
binaries that do have minimal requirements on the distro they'll be
running on, especially when the distros can be very different (in kinds
and in age).

For example, I can use it to provide:
  - a qemu binary
  - a VM image
  - a script
that users can simply drop anywhere they want (without needing root
access) and run the VM, without requiring them to install a myriad
packages, especially on older distros that may lack those packages,
or whose packaged versions are too old for qemu.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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