On 1 April 2015 at 18:45, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 1 April 2015 at 22:14, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 01/04/2015 23:06, John Snow wrote:
>>>
>>> if (qemu == NULL) {
>>> fprintf(stderr, "...");
>>> g_assert_not_reached();
>>> }
>>>
>>> Though that does read a little strangely. ("Here's a nice error message
>>> for something we are asserting will never happen.")
>>
>> Just "exit(1);" then. :)
>>
>> Good idea, this is annoying.
>
> Also irritating is the way it silently requires
> the binary to have a name in the shape it was
> expecting, which can catch you out if you were
> trying to set it to a wrapper shell script that
> invokes valgrind or something...
I don't really have enough context to propose a good user-facing
message with a tip for manually executing this, so hopefully someone
else can provide one. I just noticed one other instance that already
had an assertion on getenv("QTEST_QEMU_BINARY") being non-null.
-Ed
