Re: [Xen-devel] seabios build failure

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 15:01 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On 01/26/12 15:51, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 14:35 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
> >> gmake[6]: Entering directory tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote
> >>     Building ld scripts (version "1.6.3.1-20120126_152501")
> >> env: python: No such file or directory
> >> gmake[6]: *** [out/romlayout16.lds] Error 127
> >>
> >>
> >> The python scripts must be invoked with $(PYTHON) as done
> >> throughout the build system.
> >
> > SeaBIOS uses:
> > $ rgrep -i python tools/firmware/seabios-dir
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/transdump.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/buildrom.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/checkstack.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/encodeint.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/layoutrom.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/checkrom.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/readserial.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/readserial.py:Or: apt-get install 
> > python-serial
> > tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/checksum.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> >
> > Does this not work? Should python be on your $PATH?
> 
> It is. But the python binary on NetBSD's pkgsrc
> is called python<version> to allow concurrent installations of different
> python versions.
> So I can have: python2.5, python2.6, python2.7, python3.1, etc.

There is no current "python" referring to the default version?

I think this is something you will need to work out with the SeaBIOS
upstream.

Ian.

> 
> Christoph
> 
> >
> > Since SeaBIOS is third party code we are not so much at liberty to make
> > the same sorts of policy decisions as we would for our own code.
> >
> > You could perhaps attempt to work around this by invoking the recursive
> > make into the seabios directory with PATH=$(dir-only $(PYTHON):$PATH or
> > whatever the appropriate runes are.
> >
> > Or you could try posting a patch to SeaBIOS-devel, I don't know what
> > their thinking on this sort of thing is.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
> 
> 



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