Andreas Färber wrote: > > Am 27.07.2007 um 16:58 schrieb Sunil Amitkumar Janki: > >> Dan Shearer wrote: >>> I see this as a different class of testing >>> [...], checking out and compiling >>> under different circumstances. That's very valuable, and will help >>> address a problem that drives away a lot of potential QEMU users - they >>> just can't compile it. >> >> That would be great. I am regularly compiling and using QEMU CVS >> snapshots because features get added all the time. A lot of the time >> it happens that these build fine on x86 whereas they don't work on >> other architectures because the developers don't have access to those. >> >> I have been running self-built Slackware 12.0 on MIPS for the last >> few months and would like to run QEMU on that architecture. previously >> it built but didn't run, but now it doesn't even compile anymore. The >> error message I get is the following: [...] > > I recently reported build failure of the ppc target on OS X due to an > unsupported GCC feature but no-one has shown any interest in fixing it, > neither applying my workaround patch nor proposing a different solution. > > It's a strange phenomenon that many other open source projects don't suffer > - qemu seems to expect everyone to patch it herself instead of fixing > problems in the repository at their origin. Major example being qemu > clinging on to GCC 3.x instead of supporting both 3 and 4 by updating and > integrating the existing patches that worked for 0.9.0.
The patches I remember did either break other compilers or were a maintenance nightmare of postprocessed assembler output. Thiemo
