bare/qemu broken?

[Chris Johns]

On 2020-04-07 03:54, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> 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.
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> I think that is a good idea.

Agreed.

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

Could you check for the version of perl and not proceed if it is not right?

The version of qemu is old but updating it to build on all hosts is a 
lot of work.

Chris