On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:21:50 +0100 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 16 August 2013 08:59, Erik Rull <erik.r...@rdsoftware.de> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > when using the released qemu-1.6.0.tar.bz2, I get the following error > > message: > > File "/home/erik/qemu-1.6.0/scripts/qapi.py", line 164 > > except QAPISchemaError as e: > > ^ > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > make: *** [qmp-commands.h] Error 1 > > My guess is that your python is older than 2.6; I think > the "except Foo as e" syntax is new in 2.6. We probably > missed this because most people use a newer Python than > 2.6, but configure's check only requires 2.4 or better. > > We should probably update the scripts to not use overly > new features (or alternatively decide that 2.6 is our new > minimum -- what do RHEL5 and our other oldest-supported > distros ship?) > > For this specific case I think it needs to change to > except QAPISchemaError, e: Erik, can you try that and post a patch? Would be interesting to know if this is the only problem with older python.
