Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git build system (Re: [HACKATHON] Toolstack session)

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:05:00PM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 14:44 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I spent some time this morning to work out the details of xen.git
> > build
> > system.
> > 
> > * How build system works at the moment?
> >   1. Stubdom.mk.in and Tools.mk.in define FETCHER variable.
> >   2. m4/fetcher.m4 checks for wget or ftp, which becomes FETCHER.
> >   3. StdGNU.mk defines GIT. It can be overwritten by setting envar
> >      when building.
> >   4. scripts/git-checkout.sh is used to checkout git tree.
> >   5. Invocation of git-checkout.sh in Makefile, tools/Makefile and
> >      tools/firmware/Makefile.
> >   6. Direct invocation of GIT in Makefile, tools/Makefile,
> >      tools/firmware/Makefile in the subtree force update targets.
> >   7. stubdom/Makefile and tools/firmware/etherboot/Makefile invoke
> > FETCHER.
> > 
> > * What will be cloned?
> >   1. mini-os
> >   2. qemu-trad
> >
> Can be skipped with '--disable-qemu-traditional', I think?
> (that's what I do pretty much all the time, and it seems to work for
> me)
> 

Yes. Mini-os can be skipped with "--disable-stubdom" BTW.

Wei.

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