Re: Problem with trying to build qemu-9.0.2 - it requires dtc for all architectures

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello Adolf,

Yes, you can make those changes.

dtc is the device tree compiler and it should be quick to build. We just didn’t do that since we didn’t have any use for it apart from aarch64.

Move it wherever you want. It should not have any further dependencies. We can build it for all architectures.

-Michael

> On 2 Sep 2024, at 19:46, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to do an update of the qemu package.
> 
> It is failing for a missing fdt library which it says is required by targets x86_64-softmmu, aarch64-softmmu and riscv64-softmmu.
> 
> The previous version that we currently have, 8.1.2 has a bundled dtc which includes the fdt library. That has been removed, probably with the change to the 9.x branch as it is not in 9.0.2
> 
> We have the dtc package in make but it is after qemu.
> 
> I could move it to before qemu, however I also note that the dtc package is specified only for aarch64 but if we need to have the above softmmu targets specified then qemu is requiring the fdt library for all our architectures.
> 
> Before I move dtc and change it to be for all architectures, I just want to flag this up and confirm that it is the right thing to do.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
>