Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/19] configure: automatically pick python3 is available

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 03/05/2019 02.41, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> 
> Unless overridden via an env var or configure arg, QEMU will only look
> for the 'python' binary in $PATH. This is unhelpful on distros which
> are only shipping Python 3.x (eg Fedora) in their default install as,
> if they comply with PEP 394, the bare 'python' binary won't exist.
> 
> This changes configure so that by default it will search for all three
> common python binaries, preferring to find Python 3.x versions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Message-Id: <20190327170701.23798-1-berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

I haven't bisected it, but I think this patch here broke the gitlab-ci tests:

 https://gitlab.com/huth/qemu/-/jobs/206806257

Seems like the test is now failing when you don't have an UTF-8 locale:

 LANG=C make check-qapi-schema
 [...]
 TEST    tests/qapi-schema/union-base-empty.out
 --- /builds/huth/qemu/tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.err	2019-05-03 15:21:39.000000000 +0000
 +++ -	2019-05-03 15:42:01.561762978 +0000
 @@ -1 +1 @@
 -tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json:2: 'command' uses invalid name 'é'
 +tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json:2: 'command' uses invalid name '\xe9'
 /builds/huth/qemu/tests/Makefile.include:1105: recipe for target 'check-tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json' failed
 make: *** [check-tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json] Error 1

Any ideas how to fix this?

 Thomas