On 17 September 2015 at 19:21, Steve Ellcey <sell...@imgtec.com> wrote: > > Following up to my own email. Apparently the reason I get this error is > that I am building with "--disable-tools --disable-system". I don't need > the tools and I don't have pixman on my build system so if I don't use > "--disable-tools --disable-system" I get an error about not having pixman > installed.
We ship pixman as a git submodule so that you don't have to have a system pixman, though the configure options you're using should work. > When I do use "--disable-tools --disable-system" on the configure line I get: > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../qom/object.o', needed by `qemu-mips'. > Stop. > make: *** [subdir-mips-linux-user] Error 2 > Error: Make command failed, stopping build. Daniel, this sounds like more fallout from your recent changes? > It was pointed out to me that 'configure --help' does not list the > --disable-tools option as a supported option but inside the configure > script I see this code, so it seems --disable-tools is supposed to > be supported. > > if test "$pixman" = "none"; then > if test "$want_tools" != "no" -o "$softmmu" != "no"; then > error_exit "pixman disabled but system emulation or tools build" \ > "enabled. You can turn off pixman only if you also" \ > "disable all system emulation targets and the tools" \ > "build with '--disable-tools --disable-system'." > fi > Yes, --disable-tools is a valid and supported command line option. It's a bug that it's not listed in the --help output's list of valid enable/disable flags. thanks -- PMM
