Re: qemu linux-user limitations

Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> Mon, 19 May 2025 09:46:59 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs
Organization	GNU
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> > - glibc iconv modules are not installed (on Debian/Ubuntu).
> >> 
> >> How does this have anything to do with qemu?
> >
> > It's not a bug in qemu itself.
> 
> Thus completely irrelevant.

No, it's relevant

  * for m4, because m4 makes indirect use of iconv_open(),
    and thus the output of 'm4 --version' may be unexpected under
    qemu user-mode,

  * because bug-gnulib is in CC and many charset related gnulib tests
    fail in these qemu user-mode environments.

Bruno