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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Require Python 2.6


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Require Python 2.6
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 18:43:15 +0100

On 9 September 2015 at 18:39, Steve Ellcey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:44:17PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> > On 4 September 2015 at 20:53, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > > RHEL-6 and SLES-11 provide Python 2.6.  It'll also work on OS X back
>> > > to 10.6.
>
> I am actually building qemu on CentOS 5.11 with Python 2.4.3.  I can probably
> install Python 2.6 on the system if necessary to build.  Is the Python
> requirement just a build requirement or is it (libraries?) also needed on the
> machine where Qemu is run?

Python should just be a build-time requirement.

> We actually ran into this already with libgmodule where the CentOS 5.11
> version was too old.  We installed archive only libgmodule libraries so
> that we could build qemu on CentOS 5.11 using the archive libgmodule library
> and then users could run Qemu on different Centos 5.11 systems without having
> to install a newer libgmodule on their system.

Yes, I'm afraid that Centos 5 and RHEL 5 are no longer on our list
of supported host OSes (support was dropped for QEMU 2.4). So you're
likely to find that you need to provide updated local versions of
various libraries/tools/etc.

thanks
-- PMM



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