On 05.07.2024 17:20, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The history on this one is complicated. The note to README was added in
> commit 1f95747a4f16 ("Add openssl-dev and xorg-x11-dev to README") in 2007.
>
> At the time, there was a vendered version of Qemu in xen.git with a local
> modification using <X11/keysymdef.h> to access the monitor console over VNC.
>
> The final reference to keysymdef.h was dropped in commit 85896a7c4dc7 ("build:
> add autoconf to replace custom checks in tools/check") in 2012. The next
> prior mention was in 2009 with commit a8ccb671c377 ("tools: fix x11 check")
> noting that x11 was not a direct dependcy of Xen; it was transitive through
> SDL for Qemu for source-based distros.
>
> These days its only the Debian based dockerfiles which install xorg-x11, and
> Qemu builds fine in these and others without x11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
There may be one more past dependency, but I'm not sure since I don't know
the package split in the distros you touch files for. In unmodified_drivers/
(removed in 4.14) there was a use of the lndir utility coming (on SUSE
distros) in xorg-x11-util-devel. Then again unmodified_drivers/ may never
have been of any interest to gitlab-CI.
Jan
