Re: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable: build fails

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/16/11 14:50, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just set up a machine with OpenSuse 11.4 and tried to build Xen.
>
> Under root I did:
>
> hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg
> cd xen-unstable.hg
> make xen
>
> The make failed with:
>
> make[4]: Entering directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
> RELOC=0x7c000 make -f build32.mk reloc.S
> make[5]: Entering directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
> make[5]: *** ../../../../.config: Is a directory. Stop.
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
> make[4]: *** [reloc.S] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
> make[3]: *** [/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot/built_in.o] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86'
> make[2]: *** [/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen/xen] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen'
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/xen'
> make: *** [install-xen] Error 2
>
> The reason seems to be a directory /root/.config which isn't present on my
> other machines.
And /.config as well.

> make tools
>
> fails in a similar way. Many Makefiles seem to contain lines like:
>
> XEN_ROOT=../..
>
> which is a really bad idea in my opinion. XEN_ROOT should only be set,
> if it
> is not yet defined.
>
> I'd suggest to use
>
> XEN_ROOT ?= $(PWD)/../..
should be $(CURDIR), of course.

> instead. A patch is easily made, but affects ca. 100 Makefiles. And this
> change could break the possibility to just do a "make" in a subdirectory.
The patch isn't really easy, as more seems to go wrong.
I've changed some Makefiles and get now with "make tools":

make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/include/xen-foreign'
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/arch-ia64
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/arch-ia64/hvm
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/arch-x86
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/arch-x86/hvm
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/foreign
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/hvm
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/io
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/sys
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -d -m0755 -p 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen/xsm
/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/cross-install -m0644 -p xen/COPYING 
/root/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/include/xen
install: cannot stat `xen/COPYING': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [install] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools/include'
make[2]: *** [subdir-install-include] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools'
make[1]: *** [subdirs-install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/xen-unstable.hg/tools'
make: *** [install-tools] Error 2


Juergen

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