Hey Seth,

Do you know if it builds on Sparc at all?  On Oracle Solaris ;)

jonathan


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Seth G <seth.goldb...@sun.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I just sent a fair amount of time trying to figure out problems
> with the qemu build and resulting binary.  The first problem (which
> is no longer a problem due to the shell OpenSolaris uses) was that
> `sh' was used in rules.mak to perform commands -- I had a /bin/sh
> that was not bash-compatible.  That's a minor problem.  The
> more-serious problem was that once qemu was built, it would die almost
> immediately, complaining about smbus-eeprom not being an I2C device.
> That problem appears to be due to an issue with gcc's use of the
> Solaris native linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) -- the linker is not including
> all .o's in the .a's, even though the --whole-archive switch was passed
> to it.  The linker team is looking into that problem right now, but in
> the meantime, manually performing the link step by specifying all the
> required .o's yields a usable qemu executable.
>
>  Thanks,
>  --S
>
>
>
>


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