Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tests: Do not include lutil on SunOS

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 5 September 2017 at 00:46, Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 04.09.2017 11:32, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> My assumption is that the issue is that Solaris doesn't
>> have a -lutil (it's helpful to quote the linker or
>> compiler error message for this kind of patch to clarify
>> what the failure is that we're trying to fix).
>>
>
> There is no libutil on SmartOS.
>
> I cannot provide any information about the proprietary Solaris here and
> in next questions.

Yes; I was being a bit sloppy referring to all the
forks of opensolaris as 'Solaris' there. Recent news
suggests we don't need to consider support for the
proprietary Solaris...

>> It looks like we use libutil here for openpty, which
>> is used in the test-char test. But the condition we're
>> using in tests/Makefile.include isn't the same as the
>> one we used to decide whether to add -lutil to the
>> emulator binary link line, which is in configure:
>>
>> if test "$darwin" != "yes" -a "$mingw32" != "yes" -a "$solaris" != yes -a \
>>         "$aix" != "yes" -a "$haiku" != "yes" ; then
>>     libs_softmmu="-lutil $libs_softmmu"
>> fi
>>
>> So I think I'd prefer it if we have:
>>  * a configure test for "is openpty() in libutil"
>>  * use that to determine whether to add -lutil to
>>    libs_softmmu and to the libs for tests, rather than
>>    doing OS-specific tests
>>
>
> This looks cleaner. I will go for it.

Thanks. Remember that there are three cases to handle:
 * has openpty, don't need -lutil to get it (OSX is like this I think)
 * has openpty and you need -lutil (Linux)
 * has no openpty at all, use QEMU internal version (smartos)

thanks
-- PMM