Hi Thomas,
Thanks for looking into this patch. My responses inline below:
Thomas Huth writes:
> On 14/04/2023 23.06, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
>> Since commit fd8171fe52b5e("target/hexagon: import lexer for idef-parser")
>> the
>> hexagon target uses 'flex' to generate idef-parser. However 'focal' may not
>> have
>> 'flex' pre-installed, consequently following error is seen with travis when
>> trying to execute the 'GCC (user)' job that also tries to build hexagon user
>> binary:
>>
>>
>> export CONFIG="--disable-containers --disable-system"
>>
>> Program flex found: NO
>>
>> ../target/hexagon/meson.build:179:4: ERROR: Program 'flex' not found or not
>> executable
>>
>
> This works for me also without adding the package:
>
> https://app.travis-ci.com/github/huth/qemu/jobs/600292739
>
> Weird. Are you using a different Travis instance than I do?
>
Yes, I am using a Enterprise Travis Instance with 'focal' distro which
apparantly has a different focal image not containing Flex available by
default.
>> Fix this by explicitly add 'flex' to the list of addon apt-packages for the
>> 'GCC (user)' job.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain
>> ---
>> .travis.yml | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>> index 11894eb810..8dc71c294d 100644
>> --- a/.travis.yml
>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>> @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ jobs:
>> - libglib2.0-dev
>> - libgnutls28-dev
>> - ninja-build
>> + - flex
>
> I agree that adding this explicitely makes sense, but I think we should then
> also add "bison" here as well, since that's used by the hexagon target, too?
Yes, agree. Will spinoff another version which explicitly adds this dep.
> Thomas
>
>
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Cheers
~ Vaibhav
