[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1787012] Re: Solaris build error: Bad string

[Michele Denber]

[Solved]

There's nothing like going public with a problem to find the answer
yourself shortly after.  In case it helps someone else in the future, it
turns out that the Makefile in dtc/ contains the following line:

HOSTOS := $(shell uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \
   sed -e 's/\(cygwin\|msys\).*/\1/')

Apparently there's something in there that gmake doesn't like which
causes it to emit "Bad string" so I just replaced that line with:

HOSTOS=SunOS

(a call to uname -s from the command line returns SunOS) and I'm no
longer getting the "Bad string" from gmake.  (I'm getting soemthing else
now but that's a different matter).

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Title:
  Solaris build error: Bad string

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  While building qemu2.12.0 on a Sun Oracle Enterprise M3000 SPARC64 VII
  running Solaris 10U11, opencsw toolchain, gcc 7.3.0, and python 3.3.6
  I get:

  # gmake
  mkdir -p dtc/libfdt
  mkdir -p dtc/tests
  Bad string
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dumptrees.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/trees.S
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/testutils.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/value-labels.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/asm_tree_dump.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/truncated_property.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/check_path.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/overlay_bad_fixup.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/overlay.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/subnode_iterate.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/property_iterate.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/integer-expressions.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/utilfdt_test.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path_offset_aliases.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/add_subnode_with_nops.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtbs_equal_unordered.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtb_reverse.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtbs_equal_ordered.c
           DEP 
/export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/extra-terminating-null.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/incbin.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/boot-cpuid.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/phandle_format.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path-references.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/references.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/string_escapes.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/propname_escapes.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/appendprop2.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/appendprop1.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/del_node.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/del_property.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/setprop.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/set_name.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/rw_tree1.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/open_pack.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nopulate.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/mangle-layout.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/move_and_save.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/sw_tree1.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nop_node.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nop_property.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/setprop_inplace.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/stringlist.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/addr_size_cells.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/notfound.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/sized_cells.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/char_literal.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_alias.c
           DEP 
/export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_compatible.c         
DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_check_compatible.c
           DEP 
/export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_phandle.c
           DEP 
/export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_prop_value.c         
DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/parent_offset.c
           DEP 
/export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/supernode_atdepth_offset.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_path.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_phandle.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/getprop.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_name.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path_offset.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/subnode_offset.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/find_property.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/root_node.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_mem_rsv.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_addresses.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_strerror.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_sw.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_wip.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/util.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtoverlay.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtput.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtget.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtdump.c
           DEP convert-dtsv0-lexer.lex.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/srcpos.c
           DEP dtc-parser.tab.c
           DEP dtc-lexer.lex.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/treesource.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/livetree.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fstree.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/flattree.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/dtc.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/data.c
           DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/checks.c
  Bad string
           CC libfdt/fdt.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_ro.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_wip.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_sw.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_rw.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_strerror.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_addresses.o
           CC libfdt/fdt_overlay.o
           AR libfdt/libfdt.a
  a - libfdt/fdt.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_ro.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_wip.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_sw.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_rw.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_strerror.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_addresses.o
  a - libfdt/fdt_overlay.o
  ar: creating libfdt/libfdt.a
  ar: writing libfdt/libfdt.a
  ...

  gmake then completes, returning just a "#" prompt and no error
  messages.  However, no executable is created.  Apparently, "Bad
  string" is the problem, but it is unclear what that means and where
  the two instances of it are coming from.  A web search for this
  problem returned nothing.

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