Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix tests/migration/stress build

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

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 01:11:13PM +0300, Alexey Perevalov wrote:
> This small commit fixes build of tests/migration/stress on Ubuntu16.04
> (on RHEL7.4 the same situation, after typical configure with following options
> --target-list=x86_64-linux-user,i386-linux-user,x86_64-softmmu,i386-softmmu \
> --enable-numa --enable-kvm --enable-vhost-net --enable-tpm --enable-debug \
>  --disable-gtk )
> PTHREAD_LIB is empty after successfully compiled pthread sample in configure.
> tests/migration/stress relay on it, but -pthread is not there
> and linker fails trying to resolve pthread symbols.
> 
> I still have a questions:
> 1. Is there a better way to obtain -thread option from QEMU_CFLAGS
> 2. Is linker options really necessary for stress application, because only -O3
> is used, so w/o linker options in Makefile there is no need in PTHREAD_LIB
> at all, I mean in whole project.
> 3. LINKPROG will be expanded into c++ firstly, and -static in
> tests/Makefile.include will require static libstdc++, but configure doesn't
> check it and in case of missing libstdc++-static.x86_64 (RHEL package name),
> build will fail with the following message: "ld: cannot find -lstdc++",
> I think here reasonably to use just $(CC) instead of LINKPROG, stress.c is on C.

Yeah, changing to $(CC) is fine - and adding -lpthread to the end of the
args instead of $PTHREAD_LIB

> 
> Also ./tests/migration/guestperf.py can not be started w/o
> super user privileges, and reports in this case something useless like this:
> Error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

IIRC, that's an Ubuntu problem - they pointlessly restrict their
/boot/vmlinuz files so you can't read them as non-root. Use the
--kernel arg to point to a readable image. There's no need for
the test to run privileged

Regards,
Daniel
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