Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1785698] Re: Solaris build error: unknown type name ‘gcry_error_t’

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 August 2018 at 18:44, Michele Denber <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08-14-2018 4:42 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>
>> We do assume a posix shell and that that shell is /bin/sh.
>> We may have bugs where we assume non-posix behaviour
>> from it, since almost all users are going to be on systems
>> where /bin/sh is bash or dash or whatever the BSD /bin/sh is.
> Apparently Solaris is different in that regard (among others).

Yeah. I'm not sure how much I care about supporting OSes that
decide to be totally different from everybody else, to be honest.
It's the 21st century and POSIX is a thing.

>> (dtc is a sort-of-third-party module, not part of QEMU
>> proper.)
> I notice in the Makefile in dtc/ that it's calling python.  My default
> python is 2.6.9.

Our Python requirement is 2.7, and configure should check that.
If you're telling configure --python=/some/nondefault/python
then I guess the problem is we're not passing that on to dtc's
build process.

> Or is this dtc stuff really necessary?

It is necessary, but only for certain guest CPU types. You can
disable it by passing configure both "--disable-fdt" and also
"--target-list=<some list of targets which doesn't include
any arm, ppc, mips, microblaze or riscv targets>"
(for instance "--target-list=x86_64-softmmu".)

thanks
-- PMM