Re: [PATCH 2/2] cirrus.yml: Update the FreeBSD task to version 12.2

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 11:09, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> FreeBSD version 12.1 is out of service now, and the task in the
> Cirrus-CI is failing. Update to 12.2 to get it working again.
> Unfortunately, there is a bug in libtasn1 that triggers with the
> new version of Clang that is used there (see this thread for details:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg00739.html ),
> so we have to disable gnutls for now to make it work again. We can
> enable it later again once libtasn1 has been fixed in FreeBSD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Is it feasible to make configure check for "is libtasn1 broken"?
I guess since it only shows up as "when you try to use it
it fails" that would be a runtime check rather than compile
time, which isn't really possible :-(

thanks
-- PMM