On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 22:25, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
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> The following changes since commit 470dd6bd360782f5137f7e3376af6a44658eb1d3:
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>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-testing-060121-4' into staging (2021-01-06 22:18:36 +0000)
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> are available in the Git repository at:
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>   https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu.git tags/mips-20210107
>
> for you to fetch changes up to f97d339d612b86d8d336a11f01719a10893d6707:
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>   docs/system: Remove deprecated 'fulong2e' machine alias (2021-01-07 22:57:49 +0100)
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> MIPS patches queue
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> - Simplify CPU/ISA definitions
> - Various maintenance code movements in translate.c
> - Convert part of the MSA ASE instructions to decodetree
> - Convert some instructions removed from Release 6 to decodetree
> - Remove deprecated 'fulong2e' machine alias

Hi; this failed to build on some of my hosts:

[1/4674] Generating 'libqemu-mipsel-softmmu.fa.p/decode-mips64r6.c.inc'.
FAILED: libqemu-mipsel-softmmu.fa.p/decode-mips64r6.c.inc
/usr/bin/python3 /home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py
../../target/mips/mips64r6.decode --static-deco
de=decode_mips64r6 -o libqemu-mipsel-softmmu.fa.p/decode-mips64r6.c.inc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py", line
1397, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py", line
1308, in main
    parse_file(f, toppat)
  File "/home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py", line
994, in parse_file
    for line in f:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
80: ordinal not in range(128)

[2/4674] Generating 'libqemu-mipsel-softmmu.fa.p/decode-msa64.c.inc'.
FAILED: libqemu-mipsel-softmmu.fa.p/decode-msa64.c.inc
/usr/bin/python3 /home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py
../../target/mips/msa64.decode --static-decode=
decode_msa64 -o libqemu-mipsel-softmmu.fa.p/decode-msa64.c.inc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py", line
1397, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py", line
1308, in main
    parse_file(f, toppat)
  File "/home/petmay01/qemu-for-merges/scripts/decodetree.py", line
994, in parse_file
    for line in f:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
93: ordinal not in range(128)

etc.

Looks like decodetree fails to cope with non-ASCII characters in
its input file -- probably this depends on the host locale settings:
I think these hosts run in the 'C' locale.