Re: [PULL v2 00/22] Build system + misc changes for 2020-10-16

[Peter Maydell]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 14:09, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 16:56, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > The following changes since commit 3e40748834923798aa57e3751db13a069e2c617b:
> >
> >   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/rth/tags/pull-mb-20201014' into 
> > staging (2020-10-15 20:30:24 +0100)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 61f6bb4b9b3b33d0371e5f76d756838df372f2ec:
> >
> >   ci: include configure and meson logs in all jobs if configure fails 
> > (2020-10-16 10:01:43 -0400)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > * Drop ninjatool and just require ninja (Paolo)
> > * Fix docs build under msys2 (Yonggang)
> > * HAX snafu fix (Claudio)
> > * Disable signal handlers during fuzzing (Alex)
> > * Miscellaneous fixes (Bruce, Greg)
>
> Half my build hosts fail with a weird backtrace from mtest2make:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "scripts/mtest2make.py", line 37, in <module>
>     introspect = json.load(sys.stdin)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 299, in load
>     parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
>     return _default_decoder.decode(s)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
>     obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
>     raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
> json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
> make: *** Deleting file 'Makefile.mtest'
>
> followed by:
>
> ERROR: Cannot find Ninja

I'm updating various build machines and will give the pullreq a
retry, but in the meantime:

The NetBSD tests/vm setup fails slightly differently:

ERROR: Could not detect Ninja v1.7 or newer

thanks
-- PMM