On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 20:49, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 10/08/20 21:45, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> Note that if you don't install it, you just get the previous behavior > >> (plus a warning). But if you want that, it would be simply "gettext" I > >> guess. You're using tests/vm/*bsd right? > > Yes. Unless there's a strong reason for testing the no-gettext > > configuration via the BSD VMs it seems like we might as well > > just install the dependency. Silencing the warning would be > > nice as well if the lack of it isn't actually problematic. > > > > No, I think the warning is valid. Silencing it would be predicated on > --disable-gettext or something like that. I'll just add the dependency.
Our usual default convention is "if the host system has feature X, act as if --enable-X, otherwise act as if --disable-X", not "act as if --disable-X apart from warning about it". thanks -- PMM
