bare/qemu broken?

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:49 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:43 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> This is a problem caused by newer versions of perl. The unescaped { }
>> in regex was deprecated and then eliminated. It requires an upstream
>> fix to escape with \.
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> Unfortunately, it appears that the qemu bset only works on older distributions.
> The qemu4 bset is a newer qemu version that builds on newer distributions.
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> Seems to be a rat hole. It might be worth considering renaming qemu to qemu2
> if that's the major version so people have to make a more conscious choice.

I think that is a good idea.

Also, the qemu.bset could build a version of perl that would work?

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>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:38 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> > I'm trying to build qemu in RSB, I get a build error, from the tail of
>> > the report it appears as:
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>> >   GEN   kvm_stat.1
>> > Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <--
>> > HERE in m/^\@strong{ <-- HERE (.*)}$/ at
>> > /mnt/devel/rtems/rtems-source-builder/bare/build/qemu-42d58e7c6760cb9c55627c28ae538e27dcf2f144-x86_64-linux-gnu-1/qemu-42d58e7c6760cb9c55627c28ae538e27dcf2f144/scripts/texi2pod.pl
>> > line 320.
>> > Makefile:509: recipe for target 'qemu-nbd.8' failed
>> > make: *** [qemu-nbd.8] Error 255
>> > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> > Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <--
>> > HERE in m/^\@strong{ <-- HERE (.*)}$/ at
>> > /mnt/devel/rtems/rtems-source-builder/bare/build/qemu-42d58e7c6760cb9c55627c28ae538e27dcf2f144-x86_64-linux-gnu-1/qemu-42d58e7c6760cb9c55627c28ae538e27dcf2f144/scripts/texi2pod.pl
>> > line 320.
>> > Makefile:515: recipe for target 'kvm_stat.1' failed
>> > make: *** [kvm_stat.1] Error 255
>> >   GEN   qga/qapi-generated/qga-qapi-types.h
>> > shell cmd failed: /bin/sh -ex
>> > /mnt/devel/rtems/rtems-source-builder/bare/build/qemu-42d58e7c6760cb9c55627c28ae538e27dcf2f144-x86_64-linux-gnu-1/do-build
>> > error: building qemu-42d58e7c6760cb9c55627c28ae538e27dcf2f144-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
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