Re: [Xen-ia64-devel]Open GFW Building HowTo Document

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:30 +0800, Mu, Qin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A HowTo document is created for the open guest firmware project to help
> users obtain and build from sources.
> Any of your suggestions or comments will be appreciated very much!

   Nice work.  I think this would be more useful if it were hosted in
the Xen wiki so we could have an online reference and update it as
necessary.  A few comments:

Prereqs:
      * I think any subversion client and nearly any rev of mercurial is
        ok.
      * I actually use gcc-3.4 to build and it works fine (I've had
        problems w/ gcc-4.1)
      * The jrockit version doesn't look like the ones I usually see
        from them.  I'm using jrockit-R27.3.1-jdk1.5.0_11-linux-ipf.bin.
        I don't know how that relates to 5.0.

I don't know if this is useful to others, but since I had problems with
gcc-4.1, which is my system gcc version, I do one more step to make the
build use a different gcc:

diff -r 7988fb818c3b edk2-sparse/Tools/Conf/tools_def.txt
--- a/edk2-sparse/Tools/Conf/tools_def.txt      Wed Aug 29 04:11:05 2007 +0200
+++ b/edk2-sparse/Tools/Conf/tools_def.txt      Wed Oct 10 15:07:12 2007 -0600
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ RELEASE_VS2005PRO_X64_DLINK_FLAGS = /NOL
 *_UNIXGCC_IPF_ASM_EXT         = .s
 
 *_UNIXGCC_IA32_*_PATH       = /usr/bin
-*_UNIXGCC_IPF_*_PATH       = /usr/bin
+*_UNIXGCC_IPF_*_PATH       = /home/awilliam/vefi-build/bin
 #*_UNIXGCC_X64_*_PATH        = 
/opt/tiano/x86_64-pc-mingw64/x86_64-pc-mingw64/bin
 

I then have links for cc, cpp, gcc, and g++ to the 3.4 version of the
binaries installed on my system.

Also, another tip, I keep the changes above and changes to my env.sh
file as a patch so that I can apply it quickly to a freshly cloned tree.
I suppose a more advanced way to do it would be to commit the changes to
a local vefi-vfirmware.hg tree, then you could pull that changeset into
your working tree each time.  Thanks,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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