Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] gitlab-ci: Test building linux-user targets on CentOS 7

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 6:45 PM Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
<wainersm@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 1/21/21 2:28 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > Add a configuration tested by Peter Maydell (see [1] and [2])
> > but not covered in our CI [3]:
> >
> >    [705/2910] Compiling C object 
> > libqemu-arm-linux-user.fa.p/linux-user_strace.c.o
> >    FAILED: libqemu-arm-linux-user.fa.p/linux-user_strace.c.o
> >    ../linux-user/strace.c: In function 'do_print_sockopt':
> >    ../linux-user/strace.c:2831:14: error: 'IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES' 
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> >             case IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES:
>
> Why the following builder did not catch that issue?
>
> build-user:
>    <<: *native_build_job_definition
>    variables:
>      IMAGE: debian-all-test-cross
>      CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-tools --disable-system
>      MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg

It uses a different base image, debian-all-test-cross, which is based
on Debian 10.

Packages are more recent than CentOS 7.
QEMU aims to support the 2 latest releases from major distribs.
CentOS 7 is likely the oldest.