Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6.5 released

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 13.03.17 at 12:22, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13/03/17 10:59, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 13.03.17 at 11:29, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 13/03/17 09:24, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10.03.17 at 18:22, <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 08.03.2017 13:54, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.6.5. This is
>>>>>> available immediately from its git repository
>>>>>> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.6
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> (tag RELEASE-4.6.5) or from the XenProject download page
>>>>>> http://www.xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/xen-46-series/xen-465.html
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> (where a list of changes can also be found).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We recommend all users of the 4.6 stable series to update to this
>>>>>> latest point release.
>>>>> This does not seem to compile for me (x86_64) without the attached 
>>>>> (admittedly
>>>>> brutish) change.
>>>> I guess it's the emulator test code which has a problem here (I
>>>> did notice this myself), but that doesn't get built by default (and
>>>> I see no reason why anyone would want to build it when putting
>>>> together packages for people to consume - this is purely a dev
>>>> tool). Please clarify.
>>> These tools are all built automatically.
>> If so, how come osstest didn't notice the issue (long ago)?
> 
> Because OSSTest highly customises its build.

Well, I don't customize the default, and I don't see any build failure
either (I simply had the desire to run the harness on one of the
backports, which made me notice this issue). I can't even seem to
spot where CONFIG_TESTS is being (or supposed to be) set. In fact
grep-ing tools/ and config/ for TESTS yields a rather limited set of
hits.

Jan


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