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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

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?

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,

Phil.