Re: [Xen-users] Error in "make tools" for Xen-4.2-unstable

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 10:36 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> On 17/03/2012 18:18, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 09:42 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> >> On 17/03/2012 17:26, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> Please do not top post, it destroys the flow of the conversation.
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 08:40 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have ran ./configure but it doesn't work and results in an error.
> >>> Which you have once again failed to actually read.
> >>>
> >>>> teo-en-ming@ubuntu-1110-amd64-desktop:~/xen-unstable.hg$ ./configure
> >>> [...]
> >>>> checking for yajl_alloc in -lyajl... no
> >>>> configure: error: Could not find yajl
> >>> You need to install the yajl library.
> >>>
> >>> Ian.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Dear Ian,
> >>
> >> I don't believe the steps are so tedious and complicated for
> >> xen-unstable.hg. I have used the following steps for xen-4.1-testing.hg
> >> and all went smoothly without errors.
> >>
> >> make xen
> >> make tools
> >> sudo make install-xen
> >> sudo make install-tools PYTHON_PREFIX_ARG=
> >>
> >> Something must be wrong in the source tree for xen-unstable.hg.
> > No, there is nothing wrong, there have simply been some changes in
> > xen-unstable.
> >
> > Xen now uses configure (AKA autoconf), in common with a large proportion
> > of open source software. It also has an additional dependency on the
> > yajl library. I don't think there is anything unusually burdensome about
> > either of those changes and in both cases an informative message was
> > printed.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
> >
> Dear Ian,
> 
> Is there a wiki for building xen-4.2-unstable, and if there is, are the 
> recent changes reflected in the wiki?

These changes to the build have been reflected in the README at the top
level of the Xen source code tree, which is where the process for
building Xen has always been documented.

Ian.

> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)



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