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

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 12:50, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> 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.

Are we talking about "keyboard-config" or "xkeyboard-config" here?
The commit message says "keyboard-config" but the patch itself
says "xkeyboard-config".

Zhang: it would be helpful if you could tell us which distro
you are building on where you see this problem.

thanks
-- PMM