qemu "make test" fails in iov.c with "undefined reference" on aarch64 on Ubuntu 16.04

[Edward Vielmetti]

I'm building the master tree on a multicore ARMv8 machine running Ubuntu 16.04. The build worked just fine, using the simple directions in the README file and "make -j 64" to do the build.

Next, I did "make test", and got this:

emv@armv8hello:~/src/qemu/qemu/build$ make test
make -C tests/tcg test
make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/src/qemu/qemu/build/tests/tcg'
  CC test_path.o
  LINK test_path
test_path.o: In function `qemu_iovec_is_zero':
/home/emv/src/qemu/qemu/util/iov.c:365: undefined reference to `buffer_is_zero'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
/home/emv/src/qemu/qemu/rules.mak:105: recipe for target 'test_path' failed
make[1]: *** [test_path] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/src/qemu/qemu/build/tests/tcg'
Makefile:498: recipe for target 'test' failed
make: *** [test] Error 2

I expected "make test" to complete with no errors.

uname -a:
Linux armv8hello.local.lan 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 7 10:19:14 UTC 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

emv@armv8hello:~/src/qemu/qemu$ more VERSION
2.7.50

[Peter Maydell (pmaydell)]

You want 'make check' to run the self-tests. 'make test' is a bunch of broken old stuff :-(

[Edward Vielmetti (edward-vielmetti)]

Ah, perhaps this bug should be renamed, "remove make test target".

While I'm noting things, "make check" builds OK on this system, complaining only about kvm. My next goal is "make docker-test".

[Edward Vielmetti (edward-vielmetti)]

"make docker-test" fails repeatedly with

Pulling repository docker.io/library/qemu
docker: Error: image library/qemu:debian-bootstrap not found.
See 'docker run --help'.
Pulling repository docker.io/library/qemu
docker: Error: image library/qemu:fedora not found.
See 'docker run --help'.

etc.

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

"make test" has been removed, so I'll mark this as fixed now.