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

[Connor Davis <connojdavis@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 04:31:13PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 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
> 
> The container build failed for me with:
> 
> 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
> 

Ooof, apparently archlinux/base has been broken for a
few weeks now due to interactions between faccessat2 and the
host's libseccomp version [0]. This thread [1] suggests the next
docker release will have a fix.

As a temporary workaround I got the attached patch to work
(based on this one[2]) if you want to give that a go.

    Connor

[0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69563
[1] https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2658
[2] https://github.com/MiguelNdeCarvalho/docker-baseimage-archlinux/pull/8/files

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