Re: ninja install on ubuntu 16.04 for qemu-5.2.0 build

[Bin Meng]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:02 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/2/21 10:15 AM, ckim@etri.re.kr wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > qemu-5.2.0 now internally uses mesa for building qemu.
> >
> > Isn’t there any guideline for this new build method on qemu document
> > page?( I couldn’t find one).
> >
> > I was met with this ‘couldn’t find Ninja 1.7 or newer’ and tried
> > installing ninja with apt-get but the version is too low.(it seems it’s 1.5)
>
> 1.7.1 is available, maybe try running "apt-get update" first?
>
> Package: ninja-build
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 1.7.1-1~ubuntu16.04.1
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/devel
> Origin: Ubuntu
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Original-Maintainer: Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>
> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
> Installed-Size: 286
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
> Conflicts: ninja
> Filename:
> pool/universe/n/ninja-build/ninja-build_1.7.1-1~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
> Size: 91424
> MD5sum: 6384d9c31ca18803e90b7bf3f5c3ab28
> SHA1: ab64ea16c36a39bbfd6929351fff8e2d5768e801
> SHA256: 8f8ba3ccb7873cb264bd648437eb8e7d7abd4093254135f6830e368a25512b9f
> SHA512:
> 222de7f1dc96979a9d1487f090cd138397b0f6cc935acf99166a5b6d8ba951529d93039e6d431b85fa9abaf4285961e643a97dce747e41f76f4b874e1932c25e
> Homepage: https://ninja-build.org/
> Description: small build system closest in spirit to Make
> Description-md5: 5ef1371c63de86fcf36c1ddc875d2f26
>
> >
> > I guess because I’m using ubuntu 16.04 - somewhat old version, I’ll have
> > to download the ninja and mesa.
> >
> > Can someone give me an advice on which is the best way to solve this?

FYI, Ubuntu 16.04 is no longer a supported host.

I am working on Ubuntu 16.04 with a ninja I built from source, and
passed it to QEMU configure script which works fine.

>
> An alternative when you can't update the system packages is to use a
> Docker container (you might need to ask the machine administrator to
> install it).
>

Regards,
Bin