Re: [Xen-devel] Problems compiling Xen for ia64

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

Hi Ricardo --

I'm not sure from your message, but I suspect that you
are using a very old distribution of Xen/ia64, perhaps
the one from the HP Labs ftp site?  The current
README.xenia64 does not refer to install.sh.

Xen/ia64 is now available as part of the standard Xen
"unstable" distribution, at xen.bkbits.net/xeno-unstable.bk.
If you obtain this on an ia64 box, change to
the xeno-unstable.bk directory, then cd to the xen
subdirectory.  Then read arch/ia64/tools/README.xenia64.

Note that the unstable tree is, well, unstable.  Because
development continues on the x86 and x86-64 branches,
sometimes the unstable tree is inconsistent with the
latest arch/ia64 files and will not compile.  (That is
the case right now until the Cambridge Xen team pulls
the latest from the xen-ia64.bkbits.net tree.)

In particular Xen/ia64 has a dependency on a copy of
Linux (as described in README.xenia64) and this has just
been rebased to 2.6.11.  You might want to wait a day or
two until this all works through the bk system.

Also, I should point you to the new xen-ia64 distribution
list.  See http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64 to sign up

Thanks,
Dan Magenheimer
HP Labs Fort Collins


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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:04:55 -0800
From: Ricardo Staudt <ricardost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Problems compiling Xen for ia64
To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <42658E97.40506@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble compiling Xen for ia64, I'm using Red Hat AS update 3

with the build-in kernel (2.4 series) on a Itanium RX 5670.

Following the steps specified int the "README.xenia64" file, when I try 
to run "sh install.sh" I get this message:

"ERROR: Could not find a valid distribution directory.
      If this is a source-only release, try 'make dist'."

if I run "made dist" it starts the compilation process but I get the 
error below:
__  __            ____    ___ 
 \ \/ /___ _ __   |___ \  / _ \
  \  // _ \ '_ \    __) || | | |
  /  \  __/ | | |  / __/ | |_| |
 /_/\_\___|_| |_| |_____(_)___/
                               
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/pacotaopronto/xen-2.0/xen'
make -C common
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/pacotaopronto/xen-2.0/xen/common'
gcc -nostdinc -fno-builtin -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -iwithprefix

include -Wall -Werror -pipe -I/root/pacotaopronto/xen-2.0/xen/include 
-Wno-pointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer 
-msoft-float -DNDEBUG -c kernel.c -o kernel.o
cc1: invalid option `soft-float'
make[2]: *** [kernel.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/pacotaopronto/xen-2.0/xen/common'
make[1]: *** [/root/pacotaopronto/xen-2.0/xen/xen] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/pacotaopronto/xen-2.0/xen'
make: *** [xen] Error 2

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