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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Remus breaks the build

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Remus breaks the build
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:38:04 +0100
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On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 01:38 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Remus tries to go out of the tools directory and build in the kernel 
> directory.  This assumes that we're actually building a kernel out of 
> the xen build tree, and that kernel is actually being used.
> 
> If Remus needs kernel modules, they should actually be part of the 
> respective kernel trees, not grafted on post-facto.
> 
> Disable the tools/remus directory until this is sorted out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

IanJ and I once spent a headscratching few hours over a kernel build
failure which turned out to be because the remus modules were being
buyilt before the kernel tree was configured (in a parallel "make
world"). Took ages to figure out that was what was going on!

Ian.

> 
> hg qnew -f didiff -r f45026ec8db5 tools/Makefile
> --- a/tools/Makefile  Mon Aug 09 18:29:50 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/Makefile  Thu Aug 12 17:35:05 2010 -0700
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
>   SUBDIRS-$(CONFIG_IOEMU) += ioemu-dir
>   SUBDIRS-y += xenpmd
>   SUBDIRS-y += libxl
> -SUBDIRS-y += remus
> +#SUBDIRS-y += remus
>   SUBDIRS-$(CONFIG_X86) += xenpaging
>   SUBDIRS-$(CONFIG_X86) += debugger/gdbsx
> 
> 
> 



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