Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

[Andreas Färber]

Am 27.07.2007 um 16:58 schrieb Sunil Amitkumar Janki:

> Dan Shearer wrote:
> > I see this as a different class of testing
> > [...], checking out and compiling
> > under different circumstances. That's very valuable, and will help
> > address a problem that drives away a lot of potential QEMU users -  
> > they
> > just can't compile it.
>
> That would be great. I am regularly compiling and using QEMU CVS
> snapshots because features get added all the time. A lot of the time
> it happens that these build fine on x86 whereas they don't work on
> other architectures because the developers don't have access to those.
>
> I have been running self-built Slackware 12.0 on MIPS for the last
> few months and would like to run QEMU on that architecture. previously
> it built but didn't run, but now it doesn't even compile anymore. The
> error message I get is the following: [...]

I recently reported build failure of the ppc target on OS X due to an  
unsupported GCC feature but no-one has shown any interest in fixing  
it, neither applying my workaround patch nor proposing a different  
solution.

It's a strange phenomenon that many other open source projects don't  
suffer - qemu seems to expect everyone to patch it herself instead of  
fixing problems in the repository at their origin. Major example  
being qemu clinging on to GCC 3.x instead of supporting both 3 and 4  
by updating and integrating the existing patches that worked for 0.9.0.

Andreas