Comment 3 for bug 1295072

It was a minor glitch I noticed during backporting qemu 1.7 to precise.

It's more like an FYI, I managed to get this running myself. If you feel
it's wrong to specify the exact version requirement, that's fine, let's
forget it.

Cheers,
Ballock

2014-03-20 15:49 GMT+01:00 Serge Hallyn <email address hidden>:

> I'd like to keep debian/control as in-sync as possible with debian. So I'd
> prefer that this be done through debian. Since this won't change the
> availability of libfdt > 1.4.0 in older releases, I don't see that this
> really
> helps.
>
> Can you please explain what you are trying to do, where and how you
> are building qemu?
>
> ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> qemu 1.7 should build-depend on libfdt-dev higher than 1.4.0
>
> Status in "qemu" package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> The configure scripts checks for fdt by looking at libfdt_env.h
>
> configure:2610: #include <libfdt_env.h>
>
> This file only exists in libfdt-dev version 1.4.0 and onwards, so it
> makes sense to specify build-dependency on that version. Otherwise,
> configure fails with:
> error_exit "DTC not present. Your options:" \
> " (1) Preferred: Install the DTC devel package" \
> " (2) Fetch the DTC submodule, using:" \
> " git submodule update --init dtc"
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