Re: Error building Qemu 2.12.0 on Fedora 31 GCC 9.2.1 with the below error

[Viktor Madarasz]

On 3/27/20 10:28 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

Hi Peter

Thanks, actually passing the argument to ./configure --target-list=ppc64-softmmu  resulted in a successfull build and it now works Ok.

Viktor

> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 20:49, Viktor Madarasz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Im trying to build Qemu 2.12.0 on Fedora 31 with GCC 9.2.1 as this
> > particular qemu version is the only one working for my
> > qemu-systems-ppc64 emulation I need
> >
> > ./configure runs with no problem but running make breaks at this point.
> >
> >       
> If you try to build an old QEMU on a new distro like this
> you're likely to run a bunch of minor build bugs that have
> been fixed in mainline. You will probably need to trawl through
> the git history or the mailing list archives to find the
> relevant commits which fix them (searching for error messages
> is often a good tactic).
>
> You should also choose configure options to minimise the
> amount of source you build that you don't need. If you
> only need qemu-system-ppc64, then pass configure the
> "--target-list=ppc64-softmmu" argument and it will build
> only that and won't try to build the linux-user code at all.
> If configure of that vintage supports --disable-tools that
> is also going to be useful (and if some bit of source that
> looks uninteresting fails check to see if there's a relevant
> --disable-something to just stop building it.)
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>