Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix missing event_notifier_init_fd() function on Mac OS X

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 April 2016 at 19:47, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Apr 14, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 14 April 2016 at 19:24, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I did a fresh clone of the QEMU repository. Then tried building QEMU. This 
>>> is
>>> the error I saw:
>>>
>>>  CC    contrib/ivshmem-client/ivshmem-client.o
>>>  CC    contrib/ivshmem-client/main.o
>>>  LINK  ivshmem-client
>>> collect2: error: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
>>> make: *** [ivshmem-client] Error 1
>>> make: *** Deleting file `ivshmem-client'
>>>
>>> It is different from the last error, but it still involves something called 
>>> ivshmem.
>>
>> If ld is segfaulting then either:
>> * your hardware is bad (dodgy memory is infamous for causing random segvs)
>> * your toolchain is buggy (the linker should never segv regardless of input)

> Maybe I should try to update my ld command.
>
> Are you able to build QEMU on Mac OS X using the most recent commit?

Yes. I test build every merge on OSX before pushing it to master.
In my config ivshmem-client is built, links ok and I've just tested
and it runs (at least enough to print out a usage message).

thanks
-- PMM