Issues building QEMU on Ubuntu

[Karel Gardas]

On 5/25/22 19:34, Ryan Long wrote:
> 
> On 5/24/2022 5:32 PM, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 25/5/2022 12:47 am, Ryan Long wrote:
>>> When building QEMU it goes through the entire build and it looks like 
>>> it passes,
>>> but it is failing. The only error that Joel and I saw in the output 
>>> was this
>>>
>>> Found ninja-1.10.1 at /usr/bin/ninja
>>> +
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/tester/rtems-cron-6/rtems-source-builder/bare/build/tmp/sb-1002/devel/qemu/home/tester/rtems-cron-6/tools/6/lib 
>>>
>>> make -j 8 all
>>> /usr/bin/ninja  build.ninja && touch build.ninja.stamp
>>> ninja: no work to do.
>>> /usr/bin/python3 -B
>>> /home/tester/rtems-cron-6/rtems-source-builder/bare/build/qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1/qemu-5.2.0-rc1/meson/meson.py 
>>>
>>> introspect --targets --tests --benchmarks | /usr/bin/python3 -B
>>> scripts/mtest2make.py > Makefile.mtest
>>>    BUILD   multiboot.img
>>>    BUILD   linuxboot.img
>>>    BUILD   linuxboot_dma.img
>>>    BUILD   kvmvapic.img
>>> ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
>>> ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?)
>>>
>>> Unless someone has any objections, I'm going to try the 5.2.0 
>>> release, and if
>>> that doesn't work, I'm going to try bumping it to 6.2.0.
>> Which hosts are you testing builds on?
> 
> We have
> 
> - Ubuntu 21.04
>

Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS up-to-date.


building: qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
sizes: qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1: 8.129GB (installed: 903.642MB)
cleaning: qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
reporting: devel/qemu-5.2.0-1.cfg -> qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1.txt
reporting: devel/qemu-5.2.0-1.cfg -> qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1.xml
installing: gettext-0.18.3.1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1 -> /tmp/qemu
installing: libffi-3.0.13-x86_64-linux-gnu-1 -> /tmp/qemu
installing: pixman-0.40.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-1 -> /tmp/qemu
installing: glib-2.48.2-x86_64-linux-gnu-1 -> /tmp/qemu
installing: qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1 -> /tmp/qemu
cleaning: gettext-0.18.3.1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
cleaning: libffi-3.0.13-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
cleaning: pixman-0.40.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
cleaning: glib-2.48.2-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
cleaning: qemu-5.2.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
Build Sizes: usage: 9.084GB total: 1.083GB (sources: 131.649MB, patches: 
24.060KB, installed 977.773MB)
Build Set: Time 0:19:01.870883


The part you see problematic above looks as follows here:


   BUILD   multiboot.img
   BUILD   linuxboot_dma.img
   BUILD   linuxboot.img
   BUILD   kvmvapic.img
   BUILD   linuxboot_dma.raw
   BUILD   multiboot.raw
   BUILD   linuxboot.raw
   BUILD   kvmvapic.raw
   SIGN    linuxboot_dma.bin
   SIGN    multiboot.bin
   SIGN    linuxboot.bin
   SIGN    kvmvapic.bin
   BUILD   pvh.img
   BUILD   pvh.raw
   SIGN    pvh.bin
[1/8300] Compiling C object libcapstone.a.p/capstone_MCInstrDesc.c.o
[2/8300] Compiling C object libcapstone.a.p/capstone_utils.c.o
[3/8300] Compiling C object libcapstone.a.p/capstone_MCRegisterInfo.c.o
[4/8300] Compiling C object 
libcapstone.a.p/capstone_arch_PowerPC_PPCModule.c.o
[5/8300] Compiling C object libcapstone.a.p/capstone_MCInst.c.o
[6/8300] Compiling C object libcapstone.a.p/capstone_SStream.c.o
[7/8300] Compiling C object 
libcapstone.a.p/capstone_arch_PowerPC_PPCMapping.c.o
[8/8300] Compiling C object libcapstone.a.p/capstone_arch_ARM_ARMModule.c.o
[9/8300] Compiling C object 
libcapstone.a.p/capstone_arch_AArch64_AArch64BaseInfo.c.o
[10/8300] Compiling C object 
libcapstone.a.p/capstone_arch_SystemZ_SystemZMCTargetDesc.c.o
[11/8300] Compiling C object 
libcapstone.a.p/capstone_arch_AArch64_AArch64Module.c.o
[12/8300] Compiling C object 
libcapstone.a.p/capstone_arch_SystemZ_SystemZModule.c.o
[...]



> - FreeBSD 12.2 and 13
> 
>      - QEMU doesn't build on either of these for me either

Here I have 13.1 and it's also able to build qemu -- except the images. 
But binaries looks fine.

> - macOS (Big Sur)
> 
>      - I don't think QEMU built on here, but I can't get into the VM at 
> the moment

Indeed, last time I tested on Catalina I was not able to build qemu 
there either.

Karel