Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-i386 segfaults running "hello world".

[Jens Axboe]

On Sat, Jun 23 2007, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 18:31:20 Rob Landley wrote:
> > Ok, it's a more fundamental problem:
> >
> > address@hidden:/sys$ qemu-i386
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> > Nothing to do with the program it's trying to run, it segfaults with no
> > arguments.
> >
> > Is anybody else seeing this?
> >
> > Rob
> 
> So I'm vaguely suspecting that some of the dynamic linker magic this thing's 
> doing is contributing to the screw up (or at least the complexity of 
> debugging it), so I thought I'd statically link.
> 
> If I ./configure --static the result doesn't build, it dies during linking.  
> Is this expected?  (Do I need to install .a versions of all the alsa and x11 
> libraries to make that work?)
> 
> I realize releases are a bit out of fashion, but is there any way to go 
> through cvs to track down which checkin broke this stuff?  I can do it in 
> git, mercurial, or subversion.  But cvs isn't really set up for this sort of 
> thing...

git clone git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/qemu.git

and bisect on that then. It's a continued git import of the cvs repo,
gets updated every night.

-- 
Jens Axboe