RE: [Xen-users] Make error

["Ian Tobin" <itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this is a big bug, ive have tried it on several systems all with
the same problem.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 23 May 2007 14:06
To: Ian Tobin; James Harper; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Make error

Try "make mrproper
O=/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32" in your "linux"
directory. 

No guarantees, but I think that's what the problem is. 

--
Mats 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Tobin [mailto:itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 23 May 2007 13:14
> To: Petersson, Mats; James Harper; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Make error
> 
> Hi,
>  
> getting another problem now.
>  
> I can now use menuconfig and select the bits to install.
>  
> I then issue command make which takes a while but completes.  
> I then issue make install which also completes
>  
> I then 
>  
> cd../
> ictsrv:/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src
> make install
>  
>  
> goes quite a way through then brings up this error
>  
> if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod 
> -ae -F System.map -b / -r 2.6.18-xen; fi
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32'
> make -C build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32 ARCH=i386 INSTALL_PATH=/ vmlinuz
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32'
> make -C /usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/linux-2.6.18-xen 
> O=/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32 vmlinuz
>   Using /usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/linux-2.6.18-xen as source for kernel
>   /usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/linux-2.6.18-xen is not clean, 
> please run 'make mrproper'
>   in the '/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/linux-2.6.18-xen' directory.
> make[5]: *** [prepare3] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [vmlinuz] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [vmlinuz] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32'
> make[2]: *** [build] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src'
> make[1]: *** [linux-2.6-xen-install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src'
> make: *** [install-kernels] Error 1
> ictsrv:/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src# cd linux-2.6.18-xen
> ictsrv:/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/linux-2.6.18-xen# make mrproper
>   CLEAN   scripts/basic
>   CLEAN   scripts/kconfig
>   CLEAN   include/config
>   CLEAN   .config
> ictsrv:/usr/src/xen-3.1.0-src/linux-2.6.18-xen#
>  
> Ive tried everything i can think of
>  
> make clean
> make clean install
> make mrproper
> deleted all 3.1 files out from /boot
>  
> even removed the whole source directory and  started again, 
> still no joy.  Any ideas?
>  
> thanks
>  
> Ian
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tue 22/05/2007 13:06
> To: Ian Tobin; James Harper; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Make error
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Tobin [mailto:itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 22 May 2007 13:01
> > To: Petersson, Mats; James Harper; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Make error
> >
> > yes your correct, it was set to PC-compatable, i have changed
> > that to XEN and it is now compiling.
> > 
> > not sure how you figured that out but thanks :)
> 
> I just went through the "obvious" steps of "trying to build just the
> kernel", which meant "make menuconfig" on a "clean" 
> Linux-2.6.18, which
> in turn meant that the config file isn't set up for Xen (I 
> noticed that
> it wasn't before I tested it, so I just guessed that was the problem -
> which I then proved by changing it and, as you say, it compiles).
> 
> The reason it fails is that the patches that Xen apply modifies some
> things. In this case, a macro that would in native mode 
> compile nicely,
> but now turns into something that can't be used in asm-offsets in Xen.
> 
> --
> Mats
> > 
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tue 22/05/2007 12:45
> > To: James Harper; Ian Tobin; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Make error
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 22 May 2007 12:30
> > > To: Petersson, Mats; Ian Tobin; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Make error
> > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Ian Tobin [mailto:itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > > Sent: 22 May 2007 12:00
> > > > > To: Petersson, Mats; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Make error
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks Matts, just so you know this is  a Dell PE1750 
> 2.4 Xeon.
> > > >
> > > > And that will make what difference? It should still build.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It could make the world of difference... aren't there a few
> > different
> > > flavours that come under the i386 architecture? Certainly I
> > > don't think
> > > you'd reproduce a problem from arch/i386 on a powerpc or amd64.
> >
> > What MACHINE it is won't make much of a difference (afaik
> > Linux doesn't
> > have any logic to figure out what the hardware looks like 
> much beyond
> > figuring which model and mode of processor it is being run on). The
> > architecture being built for is a different matter.
> >
> > >
> > > A copy of the .config is probably required to reproduce 
> the problem
> > > though... as well as the version of gcc etc in use.
> >
> > Possibly, but I've just repro'd the problem (although, as you say,
> > x86_64 build doesn't have the same problem!)
> >
> > And I believe I know what the problem is too: The
> > subarchitecture in the
> > config isn't set to "Xen" but "PC-compatible".
> >
> > --
> > Mats
> > >
> > > James
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 




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