Re: [Qemu-discuss] Compiling qemu 2.8 on Solaris 10

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 March 2017 at 17:47, Wu, Michael Y [US] (MS) <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am trying to compile qemu 2.8 on solaris 10 (ultrasparc).
>
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> The most success I’ve had with compiling is using the configure command
> below:
>
> ../qemu/configure --cc=/usr/local/gcc-4.2.1/gcc/bin/gcc
> --python=/opt/csw/bin/python2.7 --make=/usr/local/bin/make
> --target-list=ppc-softmmu --disable-tools --disable-gcrypt
> --disable-stack-protector

> I disabled several features to get around some compilation issues.  The
> error I am receiving now is:
>
>   LINK    ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc
>
> Undefined                       first referenced
> symbol                             in file
>
> __sync_fetch_and_or_1               cputlb.o

> This has gotten me stumped. I tried so many things to fix this but nothing
> successful. I figured that it might be my gcc version (4.2.1) so I went
> ahead and created a simple C file using the built in __sync_fetch functions.
> Compiling the test file was no issue at all. I was able to build Any
> suggestions would be great!

That's a bit odd, but it may be that your version of gcc
can do some of the variants of the sync_fetch atomics
inline but not all of them (it's probably trying to call
out-of-line functions in libatomic, which we don't link
against because in theory we shouldn't need them).

I would suggest trying with a more recent gcc -- 4.2
is the absolute oldest gcc we support, 4.2.1 is a
decade old, and the atomics support only came in in 4.2,
so bugs would not be all that surprising.

Your other problem is that Solaris host support is pretty
much unmaintained and untested upstream -- we have no
Solaris system that we can use for even compile testing.
We'll probably drop Solaris host support entirely in a
release or two unless somebody cares enough to provide
us with a testing machine and work with upstream on
testing and support...

thanks
-- PMM