[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you Kenneth.

I'm goin' to 5.3 ASAP  :-)

Courtney



Kenneth W Cochran wrote:

> Qemu is in the ports tree now (as of this date) and I don't
> see any OS-version dependence, although the port skeleton
> indicates that it requires GCC 3.4 to build.  (That might be
> reason enough to update your OS to 5.x, since gcc3.4 is what's
> there now and I'm seeing more and more ports wanting gcc3.)
> 
> Why not just update your ports tree and install from there?
> 
> FreeBSD's Ports tree is not branched; it might work with 4.3.
> But you'd be well-advised to update to FreeBSD 4.11 (the current
> version of 4.x) anyway, at least until you can get up to speed
> with 5.x.
> 
> -kc
> 
> 
>>Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:07:15 -0500
>>From: Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at joimail.com>
>>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>>Subject: Re: [ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)
>>
>>Qemu is not a port on 4.3. That's one reason I'm trying to upgrade to 
>>5.3. The other is Foxfire which I've got running on several Linux boxen 
>>and like.
>>
>>Courtney
>>
>>Trey Sizemore wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:47:42 -0500, "Courtney Thomas"
>>><ccthomas at joimail.com> said:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Trey,
>>>>
>>>>I see you are running FreeBSD-5.3. I am running 4.3 and trying to 
>>>>upgrade but my old motherboard has an old BIOS that won't 'see' my large 
>>>>HD, so....I need to upgrade the BIOS so I can install 5.3. To do this I 
>>>>need to run some MS Win utilities to burn the new ROM and for that need 
>>>>to install Qemu on 4.3   :-)
>>>>
>>>>When I try to ./configure Qemu [on 4.3] I get....
>>>>
>>>>"cannot compile statically with SDL - qemu-fast won't have a graphical 
>>>>output"
>>>>
>>>>What's wrong and how do I fix it ? [what's SDL ?]
>>>>
>>>>Appreciatively,
>>>>
>>>>Courtney
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Have you tried installing qemu from ports?  
>>>
>>>
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