Re: [Xen-users] Cannot install xen 4.7

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Manuel R. Campos <manurcr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> I was using Xen 4.4 with 2 Windows until I had to do a VGA and USB
> passthrough. I couldn't do it following the steps and guides from here and
> Xen Project. Because a HVM didn't get a VGA passthrough trying different
> ways, I wanted to update. But I cannot do for an error during the
> compilation. Is the same error and it doesn't matter which version I tried
> to install. For me, I don't want to update yet, because I installed
> everything from Xen with xen-linux-system-amd64 and xen-tools, but it didn't
> work for me.
>
> So, I have here the final step with the installation and the problem of the
> make world. I think the problem comes from the tools.
>
> Resolving xenbits.xen.org (xenbits.xen.org)... ***.***.***.***
>
> Connecting to xenbits.xen.org (xenbits.xen.org)|***.***.***.***|:80...
> connected.
>
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>
> Length: 2867999 (2.7M) [application/x-gzip]
>
> Saving to: '_ipxe.tar.gz'
>
>
>
> _ipxe.tar.gz
> 100%[==================================================>]   2.73M   664KB/s
> in 4.8s
>
>
>
> 2016-09-13 12:54:15 (582 KB/s) - '_ipxe.tar.gz' saved [2867999/2867999]
>
>
>
> mv _ipxe.tar.gz ipxe.tar.gz
>
> rm -rf ipxe
>
> gzip -dc ipxe.tar.gz | tar xf -
>
> for i in $(cat patches/series) ; do                 \
>
>     patch -d ipxe -p1 --quiet <patches/$i || exit 1 ; \
>
> done
>
> patch: invalid option -- 'd'
>
> BusyBox v1.22.1 (Debian 1:1.22.0-9+deb8u1) multi-call binary.
>
>
>
> Usage: patch [OPTIONS] [ORIGFILE [PATCHFILE]]
>
>
>
>                 -p,--strip N                          Strip N leading
> components from file names
>
>                 -i,--input DIFF                    Read DIFF instead of
> stdin
>
>                 -R,--reverse                       Reverse patch
>
>                 -N,--forward                      Ignore already applied
> patches
>
>                 -E,--remove-empty-files              Remove output files if
> they become empty

The answer is here -- the makefile tries to run "patch" with the "-d"
option, but your version of "patch" doesn't support that option.

I took a look at the Makefile, and that line (patch -d) has been there
since 2008, well before 4.4.

So did you actually build Xen 4.4 in your current system, or has that changed?


> My system is a i7 4700EQ with 16GB RAM and enough free space in HDD.

The important question for build failures is what distro and version
you're using; and in this case what version of 'patch'.  It looks like
it might be BusyBox, in which case you probably need to build in a
different environment.

 -George

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