Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/19] configure: automatically pick python3 is available

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 5/3/19 6:41 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 03/05/2019 02.41, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> From: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
>>
>> Unless overridden via an env var or configure arg, QEMU will only look
>> for the 'python' binary in $PATH. This is unhelpful on distros which
>> are only shipping Python 3.x (eg Fedora) in their default install as,
>> if they comply with PEP 394, the bare 'python' binary won't exist.
>>
>> This changes configure so that by default it will search for all three
>> common python binaries, preferring to find Python 3.x versions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
>> Message-Id: <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  configure | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> I haven't bisected it, but I think this patch here broke the gitlab-ci tests:
> 
>  https://gitlab.com/huth/qemu/-/jobs/206806257

What's the easier way to notice that automatically?

The quicker fix I have is Peter setup'ing a GitLab account mirroring his
repo:staging branch, and warn him, but that won't scale much.

> Seems like the test is now failing when you don't have an UTF-8 locale:
> 
>  LANG=C make check-qapi-schema
>  [...]
>  TEST    tests/qapi-schema/union-base-empty.out
>  --- /builds/huth/qemu/tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.err      2019-05-03 
> 15:21:39.000000000 +0000
>  +++ -        2019-05-03 15:42:01.561762978 +0000
>  @@ -1 +1 @@
>  -tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json:2: 'command' uses invalid name 'é'
>  +tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json:2: 'command' uses invalid name '\xe9'
>  /builds/huth/qemu/tests/Makefile.include:1105: recipe for target 
> 'check-tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json' failed
>  make: *** [check-tests/qapi-schema/unicode-str.json] Error 1
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?
> 
>  Thomas
>