Oh, and how I found this. From http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2012-July/035109.html:
> Sorry to reply to myself. Looks like this line: > > uname -s | tr '[/]' '[_]' > > ...is not acceptable to /usr/bin/tr on Solaris 10. It worked fine > on 9. On 10, one receives this error: > > # uname -s | tr '[/]' '[_]' Bad string And indeed I get: # uname -s | tr '[/]' '[_]' Bad string # So this is a bug in the Makefile, but only for Solaris 10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787012 Title: Solaris build error: Bad string Status in QEMU: New Bug description: While building qemu2.12.0 on a Sun Oracle Enterprise M3000 SPARC64 VII running Solaris 10U11, opencsw toolchain, gcc 7.3.0, and python 3.3.6 I get: # gmake mkdir -p dtc/libfdt mkdir -p dtc/tests Bad string DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dumptrees.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/trees.S DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/testutils.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/value-labels.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/asm_tree_dump.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/truncated_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/check_path.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/overlay_bad_fixup.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/overlay.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/subnode_iterate.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/property_iterate.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/integer-expressions.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/utilfdt_test.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path_offset_aliases.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/add_subnode_with_nops.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtbs_equal_unordered.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtb_reverse.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtbs_equal_ordered.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/extra-terminating-null.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/incbin.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/boot-cpuid.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/phandle_format.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path-references.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/references.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/string_escapes.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/propname_escapes.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/appendprop2.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/appendprop1.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/del_node.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/del_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/setprop.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/set_name.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/rw_tree1.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/open_pack.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nopulate.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/mangle-layout.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/move_and_save.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/sw_tree1.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nop_node.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nop_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/setprop_inplace.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/stringlist.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/addr_size_cells.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/notfound.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/sized_cells.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/char_literal.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_alias.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_compatible.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_check_compatible.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_phandle.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_prop_value.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/parent_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/supernode_atdepth_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_path.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_phandle.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/getprop.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_name.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/subnode_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/find_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/root_node.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_mem_rsv.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_addresses.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_strerror.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_rw.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_sw.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_wip.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/util.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtoverlay.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtput.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtget.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtdump.c DEP convert-dtsv0-lexer.lex.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/srcpos.c DEP dtc-parser.tab.c DEP dtc-lexer.lex.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/treesource.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/livetree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fstree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/flattree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/dtc.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/data.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/checks.c Bad string CC libfdt/fdt.o CC libfdt/fdt_ro.o CC libfdt/fdt_wip.o CC libfdt/fdt_sw.o CC libfdt/fdt_rw.o CC libfdt/fdt_strerror.o CC libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.o CC libfdt/fdt_addresses.o CC libfdt/fdt_overlay.o AR libfdt/libfdt.a a - libfdt/fdt.o a - libfdt/fdt_ro.o a - libfdt/fdt_wip.o a - libfdt/fdt_sw.o a - libfdt/fdt_rw.o a - libfdt/fdt_strerror.o a - libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.o a - libfdt/fdt_addresses.o a - libfdt/fdt_overlay.o ar: creating libfdt/libfdt.a ar: writing libfdt/libfdt.a ... gmake then completes, returning just a "#" prompt and no error messages. However, no executable is created. Apparently, "Bad string" is the problem, but it is unclear what that means and where the two instances of it are coming from. A web search for this problem returned nothing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1787012/+subscriptions
