From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47891) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjuCX-0002Nj-8M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:07:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjuCO-0007PG-Ql for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:07:29 -0500 Received: from mail-qc0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22b]:58246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjuCO-0007PB-M6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:07:20 -0500 Received: by mail-qc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id c9so899670qcz.30 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:07:20 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <528F8F43.4080202@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:07:15 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <250225497.60855.1385021203160.open-xchange@email.1und1.de> <20131121083648.GI24886@G08FNSTD100614.fnst.cn.fujitsu.com> <528E70AD.4050900@rdsoftware.de> <20131122105631.GE24388@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> <54035371.127078.1385118997906.open-xchange@email.1und1.de> In-Reply-To: <54035371.127078.1385118997906.open-xchange@email.1und1.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GIT master fails compilation for ACPI List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Erik Rull Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Hu Tao Il 22/11/2013 12:16, Erik Rull ha scritto: > 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 is only attempted if iasl is installed but as you said below, your version is too old. Please run "make V=1" so that we can see what is the problem. > It should be something static like the bios binary files, right? ACPI tables are now generated by QEMU, so the ACPI compilation step happens while compiling QEMU. > 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. Good idea. Any chance you could help? Version 20090123 should be new enough. Paolo