Re: [Xen-users] compilation error: /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: cannot find -lblktap

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 21:42 +0100, Patrick Scharrenberg wrote:
> On 24.03.2015 11:06, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 07:34 +0100, Patrick Scharrenberg wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have troubles building the latest xen release (tag: RELEASE-4.4.2) and
> >> I get the following error message:
> > easiest thing is probably to do "find -type -d -name \*-dir-remote" and
> > blow away those subtrees, then they will be recloned on the next build
> > attempt.
> that did the trick.
> 
> Lessons learned:
> - "git clean -f -d -x" does not delete nested repositories

There is some number of extra -f, -d or -x's which does do that I think,
but I can never remember how many of which so I didn't try and suggest
it.

> - unfortunately git v1.7.10 does not even mention the skipped 
> directories, when not run in dry-run mode
> - "make distclean" would have helped, too im my situation. It only 
> leaves "tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote/" left in my.
> 
> As far as I understand the makefiel syntax, the targets "clean" and 
> "distclean" in "tools/firmware/Makefile" are broken"

FWIW I think they were recently fixed in the unstable branch.

Ian.


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