Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix missing event_notifier_init_fd() function on Mac OS X

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 April 2016 at 19:24, Programmingkid <address@hidden> 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)

thanks
-- PMM