KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 8, 2007 11:12 UTC (Thu) by jfj (guest, #37917)
In reply to: KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL by danshearer
Parent article: KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

> That was the idea, but it is quite fragile and tied to specific GCC versions.

Some people bring this up as if it's a bad thing.

Why exactly it is do difficult to download gcc-core-4.0 and install it to /opt/gcc4.0 and use it for qemu?

The installation of gcc is very clean and easy, with modern computers it won't take more than 10 minutes, there are lots of mirrors of GNU software and you will always be able to find gcc-4.0.

And we are talking about developers. Distributions can arrange binaries that won't need gcc 4.

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KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 8, 2007 11:29 UTC (Thu) by danshearer (guest, #18686) [Link]

> > That was the idea, but it is quite fragile and tied to specific GCC
> > versions.
> Some people bring this up as if it's a bad thing.
:
> And we are talking about developers. Distributions can arrange binaries
> that won't need gcc 4.

1. gcc 4 doesn't neccesarily work at all on a given architecture, and this will always be the case in some circumstances as versions shift under our feet. I was in this situation with QEMU on a pure AMD64 setup last year.

2. Most QEMU use is not production. For experimenting and testing people often want to compile QEMU, even if just to incorporate a patch someone posted. Such QEMU users usually have some other primary goal -- testing networking maybe, or some funny OS -- and building GCC isn't necessarily something they will think of or even be able to easily do.