On Thursday 25 October 2007 8:19:55 pm Thayne Harbaugh wrote: > Ick. There's some funky magic going on in qemu/x86_64.ld and the above > patch is a hack-around. The segfault is caused by preinit_array > function pointers (which are NULL) being dereferenced. This is a great > opportunity for you to put your super-sleuth skills to work and figure > out the details and fix it. 8^)
I did. "rm /usr/local/bin/qemu-i386: My build system only tries to use application emulation as a smoke test on the cross compiler (build a static "hello world" for the target and see if you get hello world) if the relevant qemu-$target exists. If the relevant qemu-$target isn't there (ala qemu-x86_64) then the test is automatically skipped. 99% of what I use qemu for is system emulation, and that works fine for me. I'm happy to test out other people's fixes for this, but by response to the weird prelinking logic would probably be "rip it all out", and I suspect it's there for a reason. Most of the qemu developers seem to be happy if it works on their machines. Thus obscure things nobody uses (like gcc 4.x and Ubuntu 7.04) fall through the cracks. If there was a stable release coming I might take a little more interest in solving this problem before then, but the last few times I asked there were no plans for such. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson.
