Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu on Solaris

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 3/4/10, Seth G <seth.goldberg@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I just sent a fair amount of time trying to figure out problems
>  with the qemu build and resulting binary.  The first problem (which
>  is no longer a problem due to the shell OpenSolaris uses) was that
>  `sh' was used in rules.mak to perform commands -- I had a /bin/sh
>  that was not bash-compatible.  That's a minor problem.  The

Please report the errors so that we can fix the bashisms.

>  more-serious problem was that once qemu was built, it would die almost
>  immediately, complaining about smbus-eeprom not being an I2C device.
>  That problem appears to be due to an issue with gcc's use of the
>  Solaris native linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) -- the linker is not including
>  all .o's in the .a's, even though the --whole-archive switch was passed
>  to it.  The linker team is looking into that problem right now, but in
>  the meantime, manually performing the link step by specifying all the
>  required .o's yields a usable qemu executable.

--whole-archive is no longer used since
0e8c9214ba1d4128cf92442cd343bc3733478261.