Re: [Qemu-devel] GIT master fails compilation for ACPI

[Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 22/11/2013 12:16, Erik Rull ha scritto:
>> It's getting more and more complex to build qemu, is there a reason why everyone
>> needs to build the acpi stuff by himself?
>
> It is only attempted if iasl is installed but as you said below, your
> version is too old.  Please run "make V=1" so that we can see what is
> the problem.
>
>> It should be something static like the bios binary files, right?
>
> ACPI tables are now generated by QEMU, so the ACPI compilation step
> happens while compiling QEMU.
>
>> So you could provide the defaults directly and everyone that wants to modify the
>> defaults is free to compile it by himself.
>>
>> And if these tools are required, please add an error message at configure
>> runtime so that the successive errors at runtime will not appear, because
>> compiling is then blocked by configure. And if the IASL is too old, a version
>> check at configure runtime would be helpful as well.
>
> Good idea.  Any chance you could help?  Version 20090123 should be new
> enough.

Hi Paolo,

Sure, here the V=1 result - I tried already some make options to get the 
verbose output, but I didn't find this trivial option :-)

erik@debian:~/qemu-test/qemu$ make V=1
make  BUILD_DIR=/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu -C pixman V="1" all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman'
make  all-recursive
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman'
Making all in pixman
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman/pixman'
make  all-am
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman/pixman'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman/pixman'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman/pixman'
Making all in test
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman/test'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman/test'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/pixman'
make  BUILD_DIR=/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu -C x86_64-softmmu V="1" 
TARGET_DIR="x86_64-softmmu/" all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/x86_64-softmmu'
cpp -P /home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.dsl -o acpi-dsdt.dsl.i.orig
python /home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/scripts/acpi_extract_preprocess.py 
acpi-dsdt.dsl.i.orig > acpi-dsdt.dsl.i
iasl  -vs -l -tc -p acpi-dsdt acpi-dsdt.dsl.i   2>&1
acpi-dsdt.dsl.i    84:             0x8000000000,
Error    4094 -                   ^ Conversion error: AE_BAD_HEX_CONSTANT


acpi-dsdt.dsl.i    85:             0xFFFFFFFFFF,
Error    4094 -                   ^ Conversion error: AE_BAD_HEX_CONSTANT


acpi-dsdt.dsl.i    87:             0x8000000000,
Error    4094 -                   ^ Conversion error: AE_BAD_HEX_CONSTANT


ASL Input:  acpi-dsdt.dsl.i - 476 lines, 19189 bytes, 316 keywords
Compilation complete. 3 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 246 Optimizations
make[1]: *** [hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.hex] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/qemu-test/qemu/x86_64-softmmu'
make: *** [subdir-x86_64-softmmu] Error 2
erik@debian:~/qemu-test/qemu$

Best regards,

Erik


>
> Paolo
>