Re: [PULL 00/26] Misc patches for 2021-05-20

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 14:27, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 20/05/21 15:26, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > WARNING: Project specifies a minimum meson_version '>=0.55.0' but uses
> > features which were added in newer versions:
> >   * 0.57.0: {'test() timeout <= 0'}
> >
> > ERROR: Could not detect Ninja v1.8.2 or newer
> >
> > (This system has ninja-build 1.7.2.)
>
> What OS is it, and is there any chance of updating it?  ninja 1.7 was
> released in 2017, and I checked that all the supported OSes for QEMU
> have 1.8 before sending the pull request.

It's the gcc compile farm's ppc64 box, whose /etc/redhat-release
says it's running "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (AltArch)".
I don't have control over system upgrades for it.

I do notice that there's a newer ppc64 box in the farm running
Debian 11 (bullseye), so maybe we could just switch to using that.

> > Also, my OSX build which I configure with
> > ../..configure --extra-cflags='-fdiagnostics-color=never -Werror
> > -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations'
> >
> > now triggers a meson.build warning:
> >
> > ../../meson.build:118: WARNING: Consider using the built-in werror
> > option instead of using "-Werror".
> > ../../meson.build:120: WARNING: Consider using the built-in werror
> > option instead of using "-Werror".
> > ../../meson.build:122: WARNING: Consider using the built-in werror
> > option instead of using "-Werror".
>
> Which makes sense since we have --enable/--disable-werror.

Mmm. I think I started using cflags for that back when configure
never enabled Werror for anything except Linux. I'll check that
there isn't some subtle issue with -Werror and -Wno-error=foo
needing to be in a particular order in the command line, but otherwise
I'll just update the configure rune for that build box.

thanks
-- PMM