Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU TCG code does not build with OpenBSD PowerPC

[Andreas Färber]

Am 11.05.2009 um 18:59 schrieb Brad:

> On Monday 11 May 2009 11:30:09 Blue Swirl wrote:
> > On 5/11/09, malc <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 10 May 2009, Brad wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 10 May 2009 14:41:13 malc wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 9 May 2009, Brad wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:58:06AM +0400, malc wrote:
> > > > > > > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Brad wrote:
> > >
> > > [..snip..]
> > >
> > > > > You tested this and it works?
> > > >
> > > > Its a moot point if it "works" since QEMU 0.10.x is broken on all
> > > > archs we had working with 0.9.x and QEMU 0.10.x is far from  
> > > > building
> > > > as is.
> > > >
> > > > So my first priority is to get it to even build properly on the  
> > > > archs
> > > > we supported with our 0.9.x port (amd64 i386 powerpc).
> > >
> > > I see. I was under impression that Blue Swirl was building it
> > > successfully on (at least) OpenBSD not so long ago. How is it  
> > > broken?
> >
> > QEMU works on OpenBSD/Sparc64 (at least sparc-softmmu is fine, other
> > targets I tested do not work well), and OpenBSD/Sparc32 did build at
> > some point. I had problems installing OpenBSD/i386 under QEMU, so I
> > haven't tested that.
>
> And that's the problem. You tested the arch no one uses with QEMU  
> (so far)
> instead of what is actually being used and the 0.10.x releases still  
> don't
> even build there either.

No, it's not. The real problem is that following the fourth 0.10.x  
release, previously unknown port maintainers come popping up and  
complaining, rather than providing patches against the SVN/Git version  
before the release is made.
Which means that no OpenBSD/i386 user cared for an estimated year -  
don't blame Blue for that.

Without you telling us the exact build errors you get it's really hard  
to help you...

Andreas