[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1777252] Re: tests/Makefile.include trying to add linking library '-lutil' that break the build on Solaris

[Michele]

That's great.  I spent quite a while last summer looking for the source
of that error, without success.  I finally just created a stub library
named lutil figuring I would then find which function was missing on the
next build attempt.  But it worked fine so apparently QEMU does not even
use whatever is in lutil, at least on Solaris.

I'm still offering to help maintain this as I have some actual Solaris
hardware.

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Title:
  tests/Makefile.include trying to add linking library '-lutil' that
  break the build on Solaris

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Building script 'tests/Makefile.include' contains following code
  ```
  ifeq ($(CONFIG_POSIX),y)
  LIBS += -lutil
  endif
  ```

  library -lutil is not available on Solaris, so the building will failed, like
  ```
  ld: fatal: library -lutil: not found
  make: *** [SOMEWHERE/src/qemu-2.12.0/rules.mak:121: qemu-nbd] Error 1
  ```

  Commenting those code out fixed the error.

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