Re: qemu-native build regularly failing

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Tuesday 20 August 2013 18:24:55 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 August 2013 23:26:44 Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> >> On 20 August 2013 16:32, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 20 August 2013 15:51:21 Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> >> >> Build of qemu-native regularly fails with:
> >> >> |   LINK  sh4-softmmu/qemu-system-sh4
> >> >> | 
> >> >> | /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6: undefined reference to
> >> >> 
> >> >> `_XEatDataWords'
> >> >> 
> >> >> | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> >> >> 
> >> >> This might be some dependency missing, as building first some packets
> >> >> (+ more importantly their dependencies) that do not depend on qemu and
> >> >> only then qemu dependant image success.
> >> > 
> >> > Do you have something else causing libxext-native to be built by any
> >> > chance?
> >>  
> >>  Yes, it seems to be difference between the tree where build fails and
> >> 
> >> the one where build success that former has no libxext-native built.
> >> Further, I tested just building libxext-native before building
> >> qemu-native, and then the build succeded.
> > 
> > The problem is we want qemu-native to be buildable both on systems without
> > X11 and systems with X11, so the dependency has to be floating, and this
> > is more or less acceptable for a native recipe - there's only a problem
> > when libxext- native needs to be built. I can't see a lot of value in
> > building libxext- native in any case - what is causing it to be built on
> > your system?
>
> This floating dependency is  a problem; could it be patches to be x11
> / x11-less?

How would you propose to handle both use-cases?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre