Re: [PATCH for-next 6/6] automation: add container for riscv64 builds

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021, Connor Davis wrote:
> Add a container for cross-compiling xen to riscv64.
> This just includes the cross-compiler and necessary packages for
> building xen itself (packages for tools, stubdoms, etc., can be
> added later).
> 
> To build xen in the container run the following:
> 
> $ make XEN_TARGET_ARCH=riscv64 SUBSYSTEMS=xen
> 
> Signed-off-by: Connor Davis <connojdavis@xxxxxxxxx>

The container build failed for me with:

Creating user git (git daemon user) with uid 977 and gid 977.
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
( 1/13) Creating system user accounts...
( 2/13) Updating journal message catalog...
( 3/13) Reloading system manager configuration...
  Skipped: Current root is not booted.
( 4/13) Updating udev hardware database...
( 5/13) Applying kernel sysctl settings...
  Skipped: Current root is not booted.
( 6/13) Creating temporary files...
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/journal-nocow.conf:26: Failed to resolve specifier: 
uninitialized /etc detected, skipping
All rules containing unresolvable specifiers will be skipped.
( 7/13) Reloading device manager configuration...
  Skipped: Device manager is not running.
( 8/13) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
( 9/13) Rebuilding certificate stores...
(10/13) Reloading system bus configuration...
  Skipped: Current root is not booted.
(11/13) Warn about old perl modules
(12/13) Cleaning up package cache...
(13/13) Updating the info directory file...
Removing intermediate container 81e02adffada
 ---> 575bfaafc6af
Step 4/9 : RUN pacman --noconfirm -Syu     pixman     python     sh
 ---> Running in 9010bd7932b5
error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: /var/lib/pacman/)
The command '/bin/sh -c pacman --noconfirm -Syu     pixman     python     sh' 
returned a non-zero code: 255


> ---
>  automation/build/archlinux/riscv64.dockerfile | 32 +++++++++++++++++++
>  automation/scripts/containerize               |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 automation/build/archlinux/riscv64.dockerfile
> 
> diff --git a/automation/build/archlinux/riscv64.dockerfile 
> b/automation/build/archlinux/riscv64.dockerfile
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..d94048b6c3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/automation/build/archlinux/riscv64.dockerfile
> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> +FROM archlinux/base
> +LABEL maintainer.name="The Xen Project" \
> +      maintainer.email="xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> +
> +# Packages needed for the build
> +RUN pacman --noconfirm -Syu \
> +    base-devel \
> +    gcc \
> +    git
> +
> +# Packages needed for QEMU
> +RUN pacman --noconfirm -Syu \
> +    pixman \
> +    python \
> +    sh
> +
> +# There is a regression in GDB that causes an assertion error
> +# when setting breakpoints, use this commit until it is fixed!
> +RUN git clone --recursive -j$(nproc) --progress 
> https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain && \
> +    cd riscv-gnu-toolchain/riscv-gdb && \
> +    git checkout 1dd588507782591478882a891f64945af9e2b86c && \
> +    cd  .. && \
> +    ./configure --prefix=/opt/riscv && \
> +    make linux -j$(nproc) && \
> +    rm -R /riscv-gnu-toolchain
> +
> +# Add compiler path
> +ENV PATH=/opt/riscv/bin/:${PATH}
> +
> +RUN useradd --create-home user
> +USER user
> +WORKDIR /build
> diff --git a/automation/scripts/containerize b/automation/scripts/containerize
> index da45baed4e..1901e8c0ef 100755
> --- a/automation/scripts/containerize
> +++ b/automation/scripts/containerize
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ die() {
>  BASE="registry.gitlab.com/xen-project/xen"
>  case "_${CONTAINER}" in
>      _archlinux|_arch) CONTAINER="${BASE}/archlinux:current" ;;
> +    _riscv64) CONTAINER="${BASE}/archlinux:riscv64" ;;
>      _centos7) CONTAINER="${BASE}/centos:7" ;;
>      _centos72) CONTAINER="${BASE}/centos:7.2" ;;
>      _fedora) CONTAINER="${BASE}/fedora:29";;
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 
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