[PATCH 1/3] source-builder/config: Add couverture-qemu general config & build instructions.

[Chris Johns]

On 01/05/2018 12:25, Chris Johns wrote:
> 
> I have built qemu on FreeBSD. MacOS failed in pixman and I have a Windows
> running now.
> 

A status update.

MacOS fails to build GLib because of a configure check for '__int64'. I have not
been able to figure out a simple workaround that does not touch the codes.

Windows has stalled in a couple of places. First there is no native Windows
support for DTC, the package does not seem to be ported to Windows. MSYS2
provides an msys binary but QEMU needs the development package (headers and a
`.a`). The `--disable-dtc` maybe OK for us but this has not been confirmed. The
second issue is the command `bsdtar` used by the RSB on MSYS2 cannot expand the
Couverture Github tar file. It contains a symlink and they are not widely
supported on native Windows and it is often emulated as a file copy however in
the case of the github snapshot tar file the symlink is in the tarfile before
the actual file has been installed so there is nothing there to copy so the
untar fails.

Chris