Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7] configure: Explicitly set ARFLAGS so we can build with GNU Make 4.0

[Ken Moffat]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:24:46AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 21 October 2013 21:03, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Ken: I think this should work (and it doesn't break building with
> > old makes), but I don't have a make 4.0 to hand; if you could
> > test it I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Forwarding a message from Ken (whose mail client is apparently
> not very good :-):
> 
 No, it was operator error - I somehow fell into editing the
original mail (didn't even know that was an option for received
mails) and trashed the header.  Anyway.

> Ken wrote:
> # I applied it to 1.6.1 - some fuzz and large offsets, but it
> # completed the default build (i.e. just ./configure so all targets)
> # and also a DESTDIR install.
> 
> Ken -- any chance you could test git master? I think it would
> be more interesting to make sure that 1.7 works with Make 4.0:
> I don't know if anybody will care enough to backport this patch
> to 1.6.x.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

 Not sure how to.  I cloned git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git which was at
commit fc8ead74674b7129e8f31c2595c76658e5622197
Merge: 3551643 7174e54
Author: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Oct 18 10:03:24 2013 -0700

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'qemu-kvm/uq/master' into staging

 Copied the non-dotfiles (cp -av *), applied the patch, got a
message from configure:

ERROR: DTC not present. Your options:
         (1) Preferred: Install the DTC devel package
         (2) Fetch the DTC submodule, using:
             git submodule update --init dtc

 So I went back to git, did the submodule update and copied afresh,
applied the patch, and still got the same error.

ĸen
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