Re: [Qemu-devel] Building qemu with old python issue

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:34:05PM -0700, Steve Ellcey  wrote:
> I am building qemu on an old system with python 2.4.3.  The latest checkin:
> 
>   commit 9d34158a5af734e8de0b42b0a7228200c426a8d0
>   Merge: 8f1ed5f bd80a8a
>   Author: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>   Date:   Mon Sep 7 16:07:47 2015 +0100
> 
>     Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/cohuck/tags/s390x-20150907' into staging
> 
> caused my qemu build to fail with:
> 
>   File "/scratch/gcc/nightly/src/qemu/scripts/qapi.py", line 947, in cgen
>     raw = re.subn("^.", indent + r'\g<0>', raw, 0, re.MULTILINE)
>     raw = re.subn("^.", indent + r'\g<0>', raw, 0, re.MULTILINE)
> TypeError: subn() : subn() takes at most 4 arguments (5 given)
> 
> Now the recent patch did not introduce the use of subn, it just seems
> to have changed something so that I call it now whereas before I did not.
> The actual use of subn was introduced with this qemu patch:
> 
>   commit 77e703b861d34bb2879f3e845482d5cf0a3a0ad1
>   Author: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>   Date:   Wed Jun 24 19:27:32 2015 +0200
> 
>     qapi: Clean up cgen() and mcgen()
> 
> It looks like the 5th (optional) argument to subn in python was added
> with python 2.7 and I am using python 2.4.3.
> 
> Is the use of the 5th argument on subn needed?  And is it intentional
> that qemu cannot be built without a python 2.7 or later?

No, that is a bug. The current intention is for QEMU to be buildable
with Python >= 2.6.0, in order to spport RHEL6 as a min OS version


Regards,
Daniel
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