Re: [Xen-devel] [XEN PATCH for-4.13] tools/configure: Honour XEN_COMPILE_ARCH and _TARGET_ for shim

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [XEN PATCH for-4.13] tools/configure: 
Honour XEN_COMPILE_ARCH and _TARGET_ for shim"):
> On 29/10/2019 17:57, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The pvshim can only be built 64-bit because the hypervisor is only
> > 64-bit nowadays.  The hypervisor build supports XEN_COMPILE_ARCH and
> > XEN_TARGET_ARCH which override the information from uname.  The pvshim
> > build runs out of the tools/ directory but calls the hypervisor build
> > system.
> >
> > If one runs in a Linux 32-bit userland with a 64-bit kernel, one used
> > to be able to set XEN_COMPILE_ARCH.  But nowadays this does not work.
> 
> This looks to be a bugfix to 8845155c831c59e867ee3dd31ee63e0cc6c7dcf2 ?
> 
> In particular, this deleted the logic to only build the shim for
> XEN_TARGET_ARCH != x86_32.

Yes.  I have added a note about that to the commit message (stealing
your text, thanks) and now I am CCing the author and requester of that
commit, for form's sake.

Thanks,
Ian.

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