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Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h h
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Thiemo Seufer |
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Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...) |
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Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:36:00 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
Andreas Färber wrote:
>
> 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.
The patches I remember did either break other compilers or were a
maintenance nightmare of postprocessed assembler output.
Thiemo
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Dan Shearer, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Anthony Liguori, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Dan Shearer, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Sunil Amitkumar Janki, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Dan Shearer, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Sunil Amitkumar Janki, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Dan Shearer, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Jan Marten Simons, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Andreas Färber, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...),
Thiemo Seufer <=
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Andreas Färber, 2007/07/29
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Thiemo Seufer, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Sunil Amitkumar Janki, 2007/07/27
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Thiemo Seufer, 2007/07/28
- Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...), Sunil Amitkumar Janki, 2007/07/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU Automated Testing, Stefan Weil, 2007/07/28