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build: Drop xorg-x11 as a build dependency
authorAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Thu, 4 Jul 2024 12:09:21 +0000 (13:09 +0100)
committerAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Tue, 9 Jul 2024 17:11:35 +0000 (18:11 +0100)
commitd49ba6bf8f904a58bd1cfdfe6c93023b249f0578
tree5f25f59e4aed53beda47012ab9d0a16a028d15a3
parent47f465d485c24fc9f917f6152c9a7e865393713d
build: Drop xorg-x11 as a build dependency

The history on this one is complicated.  The note to README was added in
commit 1f95747a4f16 ("Add openssl-dev and xorg-x11-dev to README") in 2007.

At the time, there was a vendered version of Qemu in xen.git with a local
modification using <X11/keysymdef.h> to access the monitor console over VNC.

The final reference to keysymdef.h was dropped in commit 85896a7c4dc7 ("build:
add autoconf to replace custom checks in tools/check") in 2012.  The next
prior mention was in 2009 with commit a8ccb671c377 ("tools: fix x11 check")
noting that x11 was not a direct dependcy of Xen; it was transitive through
SDL for Qemu for source-based distros.

It appears there may have been other unspecified dependencies on xorg,
e.g. the use of lndir by unmodified_drivers which are no longer relevant
either.

These days its only the Debian based dockerfiles which install xorg-x11, and
Qemu builds fine in these and others without x11.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Release-Acked-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
12 files changed:
README
automation/build/debian/bookworm-arm64v8.dockerfile
automation/build/debian/bookworm-i386.dockerfile
automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile
automation/build/debian/jessie-i386.dockerfile
automation/build/debian/jessie.dockerfile
automation/build/debian/stretch-i386.dockerfile
automation/build/debian/stretch.dockerfile
automation/build/ubuntu/bionic.dockerfile
automation/build/ubuntu/focal.dockerfile
automation/build/ubuntu/trusty.dockerfile
automation/build/ubuntu/xenial.dockerfile