Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu master build failure

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 16/03/2018 18:01, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> QEMU master is failing to build on an AArch64 machine with GCC 4.8. I get
> 
>   ...
>   CC      qemu-nbd.o
> /home/drjones/code/qemu/qemu-nbd.c: In function ‘version’:
> /home/drjones/code/qemu/qemu-nbd.c:133:7: error: expected ‘)’ before 
> ‘QEMU_FULL_VERSION’
>  "%s " QEMU_FULL_VERSION "\n"
>        ^
> /home/drjones/code/qemu/qemu-nbd.c:139:5: error: format ‘%s’ expects a 
> matching ‘char *’ argument [-Werror=format=]
>      , name);
>      ^
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make: *** [qemu-nbd.o] Error 1
> 
> 
> Reverting 7e563bfb8 fixes the build. I figured I'd report it now,
> but I won't have time to look closer until Monday.

You probably have a stray qemu-version.h file somewhere.  No worries, I
was puzzled by the same thing after I applied Thomas's patch. :)

Paolo