[Solved] There's nothing like going public with a problem to find the answer yourself shortly after. In case it helps someone else in the future, it turns out that the Makefile in dtc/ contains the following line:
HOSTOS := $(shell uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \ sed -e 's/\(cygwin\|msys\).*/\1/') Apparently there's something in there that gmake doesn't like which causes it to emit "Bad string" so I just replaced that line with: HOSTOS=SunOS (a call to uname -s from the command line returns SunOS) and I'm no longer getting the "Bad string" from gmake. (I'm getting soemthing else now but that's a different matter). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787012 Title: Solaris build error: Bad string Status in QEMU: New Bug description: While building qemu2.12.0 on a Sun Oracle Enterprise M3000 SPARC64 VII running Solaris 10U11, opencsw toolchain, gcc 7.3.0, and python 3.3.6 I get: # gmake mkdir -p dtc/libfdt mkdir -p dtc/tests Bad string DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dumptrees.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/trees.S DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/testutils.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/value-labels.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/asm_tree_dump.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/truncated_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/check_path.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/overlay_bad_fixup.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/overlay.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/subnode_iterate.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/property_iterate.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/integer-expressions.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/utilfdt_test.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path_offset_aliases.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/add_subnode_with_nops.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtbs_equal_unordered.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtb_reverse.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/dtbs_equal_ordered.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/extra-terminating-null.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/incbin.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/boot-cpuid.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/phandle_format.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path-references.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/references.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/string_escapes.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/propname_escapes.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/appendprop2.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/appendprop1.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/del_node.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/del_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/setprop.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/set_name.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/rw_tree1.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/open_pack.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nopulate.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/mangle-layout.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/move_and_save.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/sw_tree1.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nop_node.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/nop_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/setprop_inplace.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/stringlist.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/addr_size_cells.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/notfound.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/sized_cells.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/char_literal.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_alias.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_compatible.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_check_compatible.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_phandle.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/node_offset_by_prop_value.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/parent_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/supernode_atdepth_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_path.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_phandle.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/getprop.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_name.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/path_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/subnode_offset.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/find_property.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/root_node.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/tests/get_mem_rsv.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_addresses.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_strerror.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_rw.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_sw.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_wip.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/libfdt/fdt.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/util.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtoverlay.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtput.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtget.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fdtdump.c DEP convert-dtsv0-lexer.lex.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/srcpos.c DEP dtc-parser.tab.c DEP dtc-lexer.lex.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/treesource.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/livetree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/fstree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/flattree.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/dtc.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/data.c DEP /export/home/denber/qemu-2.12.0/dtc/checks.c Bad string CC libfdt/fdt.o CC libfdt/fdt_ro.o CC libfdt/fdt_wip.o CC libfdt/fdt_sw.o CC libfdt/fdt_rw.o CC libfdt/fdt_strerror.o CC libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.o CC libfdt/fdt_addresses.o CC libfdt/fdt_overlay.o AR libfdt/libfdt.a a - libfdt/fdt.o a - libfdt/fdt_ro.o a - libfdt/fdt_wip.o a - libfdt/fdt_sw.o a - libfdt/fdt_rw.o a - libfdt/fdt_strerror.o a - libfdt/fdt_empty_tree.o a - libfdt/fdt_addresses.o a - libfdt/fdt_overlay.o ar: creating libfdt/libfdt.a ar: writing libfdt/libfdt.a ... gmake then completes, returning just a "#" prompt and no error messages. However, no executable is created. Apparently, "Bad string" is the problem, but it is unclear what that means and where the two instances of it are coming from. A web search for this problem returned nothing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1787012/+subscriptions
