Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci: Test building linux-user targets on CentOS 7

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 21/01/2021 14.14, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 1/21/21 1:15 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Add a configuration tested by Peter Maydell (see [1] and [2])
>> but not covered in our CI [3]:
>>
>>    [705/2910] Compiling C object libqemu-arm-linux-user.fa.p/linux-user_strace.c.o
>>    FAILED: libqemu-arm-linux-user.fa.p/linux-user_strace.c.o
>>    ../linux-user/strace.c: In function 'do_print_sockopt':
>>    ../linux-user/strace.c:2831:14: error: 'IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES' undeclared (first use in this function)
>>             case IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES:
>>                  ^
>>
>> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05086.html
>> [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05379.html
>> [3] https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu/-/jobs/977408284:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
>> ---
>>   .gitlab-ci.yml | 7 +++++++
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
>> +build-user-centos7:
>> +  <<: *native_build_job_definition
>> +  variables:
>> +    IMAGE: centos7
>> +    CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-system --disable-tools --disable-docs
>> +    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg

Ok ... just be aware of the fact that we might remove it again in some few 
months, since we then won't support CentOS 7 anymore (RHEL8 has been 
released in May 2019 and according to our support policy we will drop 
support for the previous version two years later, i.e. in May 2021).

> check-tcg calls build-tcg which fails:
> 
>    BUILD   TCG tests for x86_64-softmmu
>    BUILD   x86_64-softmmu guest-tests with cc
> /usr/bin/ld: hello: warning: allocated section `.notes' not in segment
> /usr/bin/ld: memory: warning: allocated section `.notes' not in segment
>    BUILD   TCG tests for x86_64-linux-user
>    BUILD   x86_64-linux-user guest-tests with cc
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [threadcount] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [cross-build-guest-tests] Error 2
> make: *** [build-tcg-tests-x86_64-linux-user] Error 2
> 
> Apparently this is due to the -static flag:
> 
> $ gcc  -Wall -Werror -O0 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -m64
> tests/tcg/multiarch/threadcount.c -o threadcount  -static -lpthread
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Do we need to install these packages?
> 
> glibc-static.i686 : C library static libraries for -static linking.
> glibc-static.x86_64 : C library static libraries for -static linking.
> 
> Or simply ignore testing?

If testing then succeeds, I think I'd prefer to add the package to the 
docker file.

  Thomas