Re: Regressions in build process introduced since August

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 23.11.20 um 17:20 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:

> On 23/11/20 16:41, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> Relying on pkg-config should be our strong preference. I expect 
>>> we're doing
>>> the old fashioned library check just for historical reasons, but 
>>> even RHEL-7
>>> supports pkg-config for libjpeg. So I think we're safe to just 
>>> unconditionally
>>> rely on pkg-config these days and thus have it "just work" for cross 
>>> compiles
>>> too.
>>
>> For that matter I think we can also rely on  pkg-config for sasl too, as
>> again all our supported platforms have a new enough cyrus-sasl to have
>> a pkg-config file present these days.
>
> Yes, I agree.  However we have at least -lmpathpersist that does not 
> have a pkg-config file.  In the meanwhile I'll integrate Stefan's 
> patch.  Stefan, is libjpeg the only one that is affected in your build 
> environment?
>
> Paolo
>

Yes, as far as I see currently only libjpeg is affected.

Thanks,
Stefan