Am 16.08.2013 15:21, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 16 August 2013 08:59, Erik Rull <erik.r...@rdsoftware.de> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> when using the released qemu-1.6.0.tar.bz2, I get the following error >> message: >> File "/home/erik/qemu-1.6.0/scripts/qapi.py", line 164 >> except QAPISchemaError as e: >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> make: *** [qmp-commands.h] Error 1 > > My guess is that your python is older than 2.6; I think > the "except Foo as e" syntax is new in 2.6. We probably > missed this because most people use a newer Python than > 2.6, but configure's check only requires 2.4 or better. > > We should probably update the scripts to not use overly > new features (or alternatively decide that 2.6 is our new > minimum -- what do RHEL5 and our other oldest-supported > distros ship?)
I vaguely remember running into such problems before... possibly on Solaris. We compiled a list of Python versions and I think settled for 2.4 based on some old RHEL, too. CC'ing Stefan. git-blame points to: http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu.git/commit/e120d449e1b39ec508c297b963ce452628dd37c3?f=configure Andreas > > For this specific case I think it needs to change to > except QAPISchemaError, e: > > thanks > -- PMM > -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg