You are absolutely correct. I found the right problem but the wrong reason. Note that:
# which tr /usr/bin/tr # uname -s | tr '[/]' '[_]' Bad string # uname -s | /usr/xpg4/bin/tr '[/]' '[_]' SunOS # So it's just another POSIX problem with Solaris, not a bug. Solaris provides all the POSIX stuff, it just doesn't make it the default. -- 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
