Re: [PATCH v1 17/39] tests/docker: fix mistakes in ubuntu package lists

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 04:41:42PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 7/6/21 4:57 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > 
> > librados-dev is not required by QEMU directly, only librbd-dev.
> > 
> > glusterfs-common is not directly needed by QEMU.
> > 
> > QEMU uses ncursesw only on non-Windows hosts.
> > 
> > The clang package is clang 10.
> > 
> > flex and bison are not required by QEMU.
> 
> Doh, it was practical to cross-build Linux kernel images
> while testing:
> 
> $ make O=/tmp/build ARCH=mips CROSS_PREFIX=mipsel-linux-gnu- jazz_defconfig
> make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/build'
>   GEN     Makefile
>   LEX     scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c
> /bin/sh: 1: flex: not found
> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:9: scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c]
> Error 127
> 
> But I agree it is not required by QEMU itself.

Yeah, this feels out of scope for QEMU. If we want to make it easy
to build kernel images for testing with QEMU, we ought to have a
dedicated git repo with standard .config recipes and containers
with suitable build environments. There's no reason to deal with
that all in qemu.git that I see.

Regards,
Daniel
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