>>> On 11.09.18 at 15:37, <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote: > 9pfs support has been a documented feature since Xen 4.9, but QEMU will > not be built with backend support unless VirtFS is enabled, which is > predicated on the libcap and libattr dev packages being installed. This is > not obvious to anyone intending to use 9pfs. > > This patch adds an 'enable-9pfs' option to configure which, if specified, > will cause '--enable-virtfs' to be passed to QEMU's configure. This will > cause the dependency on libcap and libattr to be called out if the packages > are not in installed. > > For completeness, specifying 'disable-9pfs' will cause '--disable-virtfs' to > be passed to QEMU's confgure and not specifying an option will keep the > previous behaviour of predicating VirtFS on whether the libcap and libattr > packages are installed. > > NOTE: The shell script in configure might look odd, but it is coded for > consistency with other similar logic blocks within the file. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > --- > Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> > Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> > Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > Cc: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> > Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> > > v2: > - Add the configure option rather then enabling VirtFS in all Linux builds. > --- > config/Tools.mk.in | 1 + > tools/Makefile | 10 +++++++++- > tools/configure | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Wouldn't you first and foremost need to edit tools/configure.ac? Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
