[Qemu-devel] Re: Problem compiling with gcc 3.3 on 2.6.14 (Debian)

[Emmanuel Charpentier <charpent@bacbuc.dyndns.org>]

2nd answer : news below.

Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:46:02AM +0100, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> 
>>Dear List,
>>
>>I recently upgraded to Linux 2.6.14 (as compiled as a 686 Debian 
>>package), and found that this distribution, too, has switched to GCC 4 
>>for kernel.
>>
>>I tried to recompile a plain vanilla qemu 0.7.2 tarball : I switched to 
>>gcc 3.3 for this (in /usr/bin : ln -sf gcc-3.3 gcc ; ln -sf gccbug-3.3 
>>gccbug ; ln -sf cpp-3.3 cpp ), planning to switch back to GCC 4 for 
>>recompilation of the kqemu subdirectory. This failed.
>>
> 
> 
> Strange. Haven't heard of this one before.
> 
> Compiling the kqemu module should use the same compiler that the kernel uses
> anyways. It doesn't use the same one that qemu uses, but the one in the kernel's
> Makefile.
> 
> I also notice that your error seems to be with qemu-i386. This binary doesn't use
> kqemu at all, so either don't use kqemu (if all you care about is i386-user) or
> compile i386-softmmu only (if you want to use kqemu and don't care aboui i386-user).

Compiling i386-softmmu works (and the resulting executable works well 
indeed, at least with kqemu). Compiling x86_64-softmmu gives a $#!+load 
of errors (I'll send a logif someone needs it).

This does not allow to undrstand why the compilation of i386-user fails...

					Emmanuel Charpentier