qemu, and using gcc45+ compilers on systems set up with LibCxxOnOlderSystems and libc++

[Rainer Müller]

On 2016-09-12 05:25, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> I would like to try building qemu, but it doesn't seem to be able to build with clang-3.7 or clang-3.8 (on 10.68 with LibCxxOnOlderSystems and libc++)

QEMU is mostly C and the C++ parts are optional.

> the error for both 
> :info:configure ERROR: Your compiler does not support the __thread specifier for 
> :info:configure        Thread-Local Storage (TLS). Please upgrade to a version that does.
> 
> this error is out on the net, as far as I can see doesn't have any present fixes; the recommended next step is to try with a newer version of gcc, like 4.9

Check the end of the config.log file in ${worksrcpath} to see the exact
compiler command line and error message.

My guess would be that the linker on Snow Leopard does not support
thread local storage.

Rainer