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

[Thomas Huth]

On 17/03/2021 12.16, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 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 :-(

I don't really have a clue about this crypto stuff... Daniel, Stefan, Roman, 
Christian, Eric ... you debugged the original problem on macOS, do you think 
it's possible to add a check for this libtasn1 problem to our "configure" 
(or meson.build file)?

 Thomas