Re: building qemu on a system with libxkbcommon installed but not xkeyboard-config produces an core dump

[Michael Tokarev]

01.02.2024 15:11, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 31.01.2024 11:13, Zhang Wen:
> > With this patch, qemu requires keyboard-config when libxkbcommon is found on the system. So if the qemu is configured when libxkbcommon is installed 
> > but not keyboard-config, the configure stage will produce an error message, thus avoid coredump in the build stage.
> I'm not sure what you're talking about.  What *is* keyboard-config anyway?
>
> On a debian system there's no such thing.  There's keyboard-configuration
> package but it has nothing to do with that.  It looks like if we apply
> such patch, it will be impossible to build qemu on debian.
Aha, I found it.  On debian it is /usr/share/pkgconfig/keyboard-config.pc,
which is a part of xkb-data package.  And libxkbcommon Depends on xkb-data.
It looks like the distribution here is wrong, there should be no libxkbcommon
without xkb-data which includes keyboard-config.

/mjt