Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH/master 0/7] Qemu and gobject-introspection fixes

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

On Fri,  3 Sep 2021 09:20:20 -0700
Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all, sorry this took so long!
> 
> This series is an accumulation of several conversations between Thomas, Yann,
> and myself. The basics are this:
> 
> - GOI fails to build with the corei7 architecture because calling qemu results
>   in qemu trying to use instructions that may not exist on the host processor.
>   This causes a core dump.
> 
> - OpenEmbedded gets around this issue by adding options to qemu on certain
>   CPU and architecture combinations, Corei7 being one of those architectures.
> 
> - As discussed with Thomas, a new string "BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_QEMU_USER_MODE_ARGS"
>   in qemu/Config.in.host is added, which we then sed to g-ir-scanner.in.
> 
> In addition, I was anonyed that there were so many shellcheck issues with the
> various wrappers, and Yann was annoyed that the wrappers were calling to bash
> when they didn't need to do so, so those are also fixed in this patch series.
> 
> And last (but not least), Yann noticed a latent bug in g-ir-scanner-qemuwrapper.
> If GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH is empty, then the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is prepended with a
> colon, so that is also fixed.
> 
> This will lead the way to NodeJS 14 which is one step closer to removing
> Python2!

Thanks a lot for all this work! Could you remind me what's the
relationship between this and NodeJS 14 ?

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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