[oe] Ugly build problem with emacs/qemu

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz at dresearch.de> wrote:
> Justin Patrin schrieb:
>> Are the machines you're building on exactly the same? Do they perhaps
>> have different architectures or distributions? Have you tried updating
>> the systems?
>
> The machines are different.
>
> The one that works fine:
>  Ubuntu 8.10
>  Linux bfg9000 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> The one with the problem:
>  openSUSE 11.1
>  Linux recycler 2.6.27.19-3.2-default #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
>> This looks like a qemu failure to me.
>
> I agree. But i can't believe, that the different OS my be involved in that. Both are up-to-date. And i thought that all the tools needed to cross-build the packages are build by OE itself.
>
> Steffen
>

I don't kow about openSuse, but I remember that Fedora used to have
some kernel patches that did not play well with QEMU. But that was
back on Ferora 7, since then I switched to ubuntu. I don't even
rmember exactly what patch caused the problems, but IIRC it was
security related.

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