On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 03:50:45PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 16.08.2013 15:21, schrieb Peter Maydell: > > 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?) > > I vaguely remember running into such problems before... possibly on > Solaris. We compiled a list of Python versions and I think settled for > 2.4 based on some old RHEL, too. CC'ing Stefan. > > git-blame points to: > http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu.git/commit/e120d449e1b39ec508c297b963ce452628dd37c3?f=configure
Yes, we should write Python 2.4+ code so that even oldish distros can execute our scripts. Stefan
