On 18 April 2013 12:08, Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 01:02:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> For submodules that do have autoconf-generated scripts in the repository >> (I think both of them do, in our case), we should trust upstream's >> configure script. That's what everyone has been testing the git >> repository with. > > I downloaded the qemu-1.4.1 release and looked at the pixman subdir. It > doesnt come with a generated configure script, but has a autogen.sh script to > run autoconf itself. My understanding was that, like you say, the user > shouldn't need to run autoconf to generate configure, it should have been > provided. Am I missing something?
Our release notes from when we put pixman in: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.3#Build_dependencies say that you need autoconf if you're using the built in submodule. I think that's just documentation of the current situation rather than an explicit decision that it's the right approach, though. -- PMM
