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Re: [Qemu-devel] Making QEMU build with Python 3
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Making QEMU build with Python 3 |
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Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:51:57 +0100 |
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:16:58AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> Ross created a bug to track Python 3 support:
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1708462
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>> Currently most Python code in QEMU is for Python 2.6+ only. There
>> have only been a few patches adding Python 3 support to certain
>> scripts so far.
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>> In this email I want to highlight the most important scripts that need
>> Python 3 support. Volunteers are welcome!
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>> Python scripts needed to build QEMU are the highest priority. They
>> are invoked by ./configure or make. I've identified the following:
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>> scripts/signrom.py
>> scripts/qapi*.py
>> scripts/modules/module_block.py
>> scripts/tracetool*
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>> I have tracetool on my todo list and hope to add Python 3 support in QEMU
>> 2.11.
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> AFAICT tracetool seems to already work - i hacked rules.mak to
> run tracetool via python3 and nothing obvious broke
Nice, thanks for checking! I'll test all the tracetool backends and
audit the code for 2.11.
Stefan