Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: fix elf2dmp check

[Roman Kagan]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 07:50:54PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 23/11/18 10:01, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > elf2dmp is keyed on "$posix" = "yes", but "$posix" doesn't seem to be
> > set anywhere.
> > 
> > The original intent was presumably to skip building it on Windows, so
> > check for "$mingw32" = "no" instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  configure | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/configure b/configure
> > index 0a3c6a72c3..fc6ce0065d 100755
> > --- a/configure
> > +++ b/configure
> > @@ -5722,7 +5722,7 @@ if test "$want_tools" = "yes" ; then
> >    if [ "$ivshmem" = "yes" ]; then
> >      tools="ivshmem-client\$(EXESUF) ivshmem-server\$(EXESUF) $tools"
> >    fi
> > -  if [ "$posix" = "yes" ] && [ "$curl" = "yes" ]; then
> > +  if [ "$mingw32" = "no" ] && [ "$curl" = "yes" ]; then
> >      tools="elf2dmp $tools"
> >    fi
> >  fi
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately this shows that elf2dmp is not portable to 32-bit systems,
> nor to non-Linux.  Can this be fixed?

I'm sure it can, but not in time for 3.2.  I'd rather drop this patch
for now and leave the tool disabled in 3.2.

[ FWIW the format specifier mismatches were addressed by Viktor's
patchset of some three weeks ago, "[PATCH 0/2] contrib/elf2dmp: elf2dmp
for Windows hosts", but it hasn't made it yet. ]

/me is wondering why patchew didn't scream at me for breaking 32-bit
builds.  In the meantime I'll be setting up docker for testing 32-bit
builds locally.

Roman.