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

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:16:37PM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> > On November 22, 2013 at 11:56 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 09:44:29PM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> > > Hu Tao wrote:
> > > >On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 09:06:43AM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> > > >>Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >>when doing a git clone on the latest master, it fails compiling:
> > > >>
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/memory_mapping.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/dump.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/xen-stub.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/hw/i386/multiboot.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/hw/i386/smbios.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/hw/i386/pc.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/hw/i386/pc_piix.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/hw/i386/pc_q35.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/hw/i386/pc_sysfw.o
> > > >>   CC    x86_64-softmmu/hw/i386/kvmvapic.o
> > > >>   CPP x86_64-softmmu/acpi-dsdt.dsl.i.orig
> > > >>   ACPI_PREPROCESS x86_64-softmmu/acpi-dsdt.dsl.i
> > > >>   IASL x86_64-softmmu/acpi-dsdt.dsl.i
> > > >>make[1]: *** [hw/i386/acpi-dsdt.hex] Error 1
> > > >>make: *** [subdir-x86_64-softmmu] Error 2
> > > >>erik@debian:~/qemu-test/qemu$
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>My configure options are:
> > > >>./configure --prefix= --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-vnc-png
> > > >
> > > >Are you sure about --prefix= and...
> > > >
> > > >>--disable-vnc-jpeg --disable-vnc-tls --disable-vnc-sasl  --audio-drv-list=
> > > >
> > > >... --audio-drv-list= ?
> > > >
> > > >>--enable-sdl --disable-xen --disable-brlapi --disable-bluez --disable-curl
> > > >>--disable-guest-agent --disable-spice
> > > >
> > > >I can't even do a configure with exactly the above options, it gives an
> > > >error message:
> > > >
> > > >   ERROR: unknown option --disable-vnc-sasl
> > > >
> > > >While removing --prefix= and --audio-drv-list=, the compilation goes
> > > >fine.
> > > >
> > >
> > > No, sorry, the error is still the same! I did a make distclean and
> > > redid the configure without the options you pointed out.
> > >
> > > Any further ideas? Are there more possibilities to debug why the
> > > compilation fails?
> >
> > Just a guess, but do you have the acpica-tools package installed?  You
> > need the iasl compiler.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> my distro doesn't seem to have this package:
> debian:/home/erik# apt-get install acpica-tools
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package acpica-tools
> debian:/home/erik#
> 
> The IASL compiler is installed, here the version:
> Intel ACPI Component Architecture
> ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20060912 [Dec 20 2006]
> Copyright (C) 2000 - 2006 Intel Corporation
> Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a
> 
> And there is no newer version available for my distro.
> 
> 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 should be something static like the
> bios binary files, right? (Sorry for this question, I'm not familiar with ACPI)
> 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.

All of this is reasonable but I don't know the answers :).

CCing Michael Tsirkin for ACPI help

Stefan