Re: [Xen-devel] [xen 4.6.0 to be] Readme missing 32bit as dependency for a default build on Debian Jessie

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On October 6, 2015 7:26:35 AM EDT, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 01:19:17PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Today i tried building installing a fresh clone of Xen 4.6.0 (to be)
>on a
>> minimal Debian Jessie install.
>> The package list in the README seems to be missing "libc6-dev-i386"
>which
>> seems to be needed for a default build (.configure && make && make
>install)
>> which also builds 32-bit pieces.
>> 
>> The build error is below.
>
>I think that's due to Debian's multiarch arrangement.  And we already
>have  the same issue for Wheezy.
>

And it is also an issue on Fedora.

>FWIW I don't think README or INSTALL should be tied to a specific
>distro. But the line is blurred because we already used a bunch of
>package names from Debian and Redhat.
>
>I don't think this is a big issue. It should probably go to a wiki
>page.
>
>If you're keen, you can submit a patch to README and request it be
>backported.
>
>Wei.
>
>> --
>> Sander
>> 
>> make -C rombios all
>> make[6]: Entering directory
>'/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios'
>> make[7]: Entering directory
>'/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios'
>> make -C 32bit all
>> make[8]: Entering directory
>> '/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit'
>> make[9]: Entering directory
>> '/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit'
>> make -C tcgbios all
>> make[10]: Entering directory
>> '/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios'
>> gcc   -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -m32 -march=i686 -fno-strict-aliasing
>> -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement
>> -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-local-typedefs  
>-D__XEN_TOOLS__
>> -MMD -MF .tcgbios.o.d -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
>> -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs  -DNDEBUG -Werror -fno-stack-protector
>> -fno-exceptions -fno-builtin -msoft-float
>-I/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios/../../../../../tools/include
>> -I.. -I../..  -c -o tcgbios.o tcgbios.c
>> In file included from /usr/include/stdint.h:25:0,
>>                  from
>/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/include/stdint.h:9,
>>                  from ../../../hvmloader/acpi/acpi2_0.h:20,
>>                  from ../util.h:4,
>>                  from tcgbios.c:26:
>> /usr/include/features.h:374:25: fatal error: sys/cdefs.h: No such
>file or
>> directory
>>  #  include <sys/cdefs.h>
>>                          ^
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios/../../../../../tools/Rules.mk:107:
>> recipe for target 'tcgbios.o' failed
>> make[10]: *** [tcgbios.o] Error 1
>> make[10]: Leaving directory
>> '/usr/src/xen-stable/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios'
>
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