Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug?] qemu-1.6.0 python traceback in GEN qmp-commands.h

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:21:50 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 16 August 2013 08:59, Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > when using the released qemu-1.6.0.tar.bz2, I get the following error message:
> >   File "/home/erik/qemu-1.6.0/scripts/qapi.py", line 164
> >     except QAPISchemaError as e:
> >                             ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> > make: *** [qmp-commands.h] Error 1
> 
> My guess is that your python is older than 2.6; I think
> the "except Foo as e" syntax is new in 2.6. We probably
> missed this because most people use a newer Python than
> 2.6, but configure's check only requires 2.4 or better.
> 
> We should probably update the scripts to not use overly
> new features (or alternatively decide that 2.6 is our new
> minimum -- what do RHEL5 and our other oldest-supported
> distros ship?)
> 
> For this specific case I think it needs to change to
>      except QAPISchemaError, e:

Erik, can you try that and post a patch? Would be interesting
to know if this is the only problem with older python.