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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:58:41 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix missing event_notifier_init_fd()
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To: Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 14 April 2016 at 19:47, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 14, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 14 April 2016 at 19:24, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I did a fresh clone of the QEMU repository. Then tried building QEMU. This is
>>> the error I saw:
>>>
>>>  CC    contrib/ivshmem-client/ivshmem-client.o
>>>  CC    contrib/ivshmem-client/main.o
>>>  LINK  ivshmem-client
>>> collect2: error: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
>>> make: *** [ivshmem-client] Error 1
>>> make: *** Deleting file `ivshmem-client'
>>>
>>> It is different from the last error, but it still involves something called ivshmem.
>>
>> If ld is segfaulting then either:
>> * your hardware is bad (dodgy memory is infamous for causing random segvs)
>> * your toolchain is buggy (the linker should never segv regardless of input)

> Maybe I should try to update my ld command.
>
> Are you able to build QEMU on Mac OS X using the most recent commit?

Yes. I test build every merge on OSX before pushing it to master.
In my config ivshmem-client is built, links ok and I've just tested
and it runs (at least enough to print out a usage message).

thanks
-- PMM