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Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:09:11 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] selftests/nolibc: small simplification of test
 development phase

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:57:56PM +0700, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 10:34:55PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:00:38PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > One dependency is of course qemu-x86_64, so in the meantime I will figure
> > > out where I get that from.  ;-)
> > 
> > I build it from time to time from the sources, it's not that long and
> > normally doesn't reserve me any surprises. But if you have it for other
> > platforms it's likely that you have it for most platforms as well,
> > including this one.
> 
> Willy,
> 
> Is there a way to make it work for the default qemu installation?
> Or maybe it's a mandatory requirement to build qemu from the source?
> 
> I use the qemu that comes from Ubuntu apt. I have "qemu-system-x86_64",
> but no "qemu-x86_64". So, something like this...
> 
>   $ which qemu-x86_64
>   $ echo $?
>   1
> 
>   $ which qemu-system-x86_64
>   /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
> 
>   $ time make run-user
>     MKDIR   sysroot/x86/include
>   make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ammarfaizi2/work/linux.work.cc/tools/include/nolibc'
>   make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ammarfaizi2/work/linux.work.cc'
>   make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ammarfaizi2/work/linux.work.cc'
>   make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ammarfaizi2/work/linux.work.cc'
>     INSTALL /home/ammarfaizi2/work/linux.work.cc/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/sysroot/sysroot/include
>   make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ammarfaizi2/work/linux.work.cc'
>   make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ammarfaizi2/work/linux.work.cc/tools/include/nolibc'
>     CC      nolibc-test
>   /bin/sh: 1: qemu-x86_64: not found
>   0 test(s) passed.
> 
>   real    0m0.506s
>   user    0m0.393s
>   sys     0m0.086s
> 
> It would be great if we can avoid building qemu from the source. But if
> not, let's go with that.

I had no problems building it from source.

One possible enhancement would be to make the error message tell the
user to build from source, but I will let you guys debate the merits
and drawbacks of that approach.

							Thanx, Paul

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