Re: pkg/51742: emulators/unicorn ships with an old release of Qemu which it builds against

[Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51742; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/51742: emulators/unicorn ships with an old release of Qemu
 which it builds against
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 20:10:21 +0000

 On 26/12/2016 04:40, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
 >  unicorn runs a subset of qemu, restricted to emulating cpu instructions
 >  for given input
 >  
 >  "An ideal project to adapt for buildlink??" This is unclear to me.
 
 Don't use the bundled subset of qemu, switch out for the version we
 package. I was thinking when it comes to auditing, the task becomes
 easier rather than having to delve in once more to see if the bundled
 version of qemu has the issue.
 
 
 Sevan