Re: [Qemu-devel] build failure on x86, any suggestions?

[Stefan Weil]

Paul Brook schrieb:
> On Saturday 15 March 2008, Peter Volkov wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I just wanted to point developers attention to the following bug:
> > bugs.gentoo.org/212351 , comment #11 and further. The problem is that
> > qemu does not compile any more on x86. I've tried recent snapshot
> > (2008-03-15_05) and the problem persist there.
>
> You're almost certainly using gcc4.x. Don't do that.
>
> IIRC gentoo already has a big pile hacks for this. This kind of 
> breakage is
> exactly why those hacks haven't been merged into cvs. They're papering 
> over
> the problem rather than fixing it, so you should expect them to need 
> constant
> maintenance.
>
> As mentioned several times on this recently on this list, the proper 
> fix is to
> finish the TCG conversion. That will happen "when it's done".
>
> Paul
Hi Paul,

I got two similar error messages from other users. Both were using gcc-3.4,
one of them from ubuntu 7.10 (32bit). My own system had no problems
compiling exactly the same version with Debian lenny (amd64) gcc-3.4.

Stefan