Re: ovmf fail to compile

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 08:27 +0000, Hao, Xudong wrote:

Please don't top post.

> "git clean -fdx" doesn't change the error result with gcc 4.4.7. Gcc
> version is "gcc-4.4.?" in Debian Jessie of yours?

"git clean -fdx" won't clean recursively into any sub git trees (some extra
number of -f and/or -d is needed for that). I don't know how many, the man
page suggests "git clean -ffdx" does it, I usually just go -ffffdddddxxxxx
;-)

Ian.

> 
> Additional,  gcc 4.8.5 in RHEL7.2 works for build ovmf.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wei Liu [mailto:wei.liu2@citrix.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:19 AM
> > To: Hao, Xudong <xudong.hao@intel.com>
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>; xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] ovmf fail to compile
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:07:27AM +0000, Hao, Xudong wrote:
> > > Wei,
> > > 
> > > I checked the latest OVMF changeset on Xen staging tree and master
> > > tree,
> > both are af9785a9ed61daea52b47f0bf448f1f228beee1e. This commit is what
> > I
> > used.
> > > OVMF_UPSTREAM_REVISION ?=
> > af9785a9ed61daea52b47f0bf448f1f228beee1e
> > > 
> > > Yes, I found the Config.mk updated with Xen commit
> > 04c5efb0a141fa53e805e396970419436e74ce67, the old OVMF works fine for
> > me.
> > > diff --git a/Config.mk b/Config.mk
> > > index 114db9a..5db7ca5 100644
> > > --- a/Config.mk
> > > +++ b/Config.mk
> > > @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ QEMU_TRADITIONAL_URL ?=
> > > git://xenbits.xen.org/qemu-xen-traditional.git
> > >  SEABIOS_UPSTREAM_URL ?= git://xenbits.xen.org/seabios.git
> > > MINIOS_UPSTREAM_URL ?= git://xenbits.xen.org/mini-os.git  endif
> > > -OVMF_UPSTREAM_REVISION ?=
> > cb9a7ebabcd6b8a49dc0854b2f9592d732b5afbd
> > > +OVMF_UPSTREAM_REVISION ?=
> > af9785a9ed61daea52b47f0bf448f1f228beee1e
> > >  QEMU_UPSTREAM_REVISION ?= master
> > >  MINIOS_UPSTREAM_REVISION ?=
> > 256035e01a1aa5739e34f245f3b1e9e8ee204210
> > >  # Thu Jul 23 11:08:38 2015 +0100
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Wei Liu [mailto:wei.liu2@citrix.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 5:59 PM
> > > > To: Hao, Xudong <xudong.hao@intel.com>
> > > > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org; wei.liu2@citrix.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] ovmf fail to compile
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:27:32AM +0000, Hao, Xudong wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does anyone meet build OVMF failure? The ovmf is xen default
> > > > > repo:
> > > > http://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/ovmf.git, with latest commit
> > > > af9785a9ed61daea52b47f0bf448f1f228beee1e, and OS is X86_64 RHEL6.6.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ...
> > > > > make[1]: ***
> > > > > [/home/nightly/builds_xen_unstable/xen-src-bf0d4923-
> > > > > 20151029/tools
> > > > > /fir
> > > > > mware/ovmf-
> > > > dir/Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC44/X64/OvmfPkg/Sec/SecMain/DEBUG
> > > > > /SecMain.dll] Error 1
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > build.py...
> > > > > : error 7000: Failed to execute command
> > > > >                make tbuild
> > > > > [/home/nightly/builds_xen_unstable/xen-src-bf0d4923-
> > > > > 20151029/tools
> > > > > /fir
> > > > > mware/ovmf-
> > dir/Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC44/X64/OvmfPkg/Sec/SecMain]
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > build.py...
> > > > > : error 7000: Failed to execute command
> > > > >                make tbuild
> > > > > [/home/nightly/builds_xen_unstable/xen-src-bf0d4923-
> > > > > 20151029/tools
> > > > > /fir
> > > > > mware/ovmf-
> > > > dir/Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC44/X64/MdeModulePkg/Universal/PC
> > > > > D/Pei/Pcd]
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > build.py...
> > > > > : error 7000: Failed to execute command
> > > > >                make tbuild
> > > > > [/home/nightly/builds_xen_unstable/xen-src-bf0d4923-
> > > > > 20151029/tools
> > > > > /fir
> > > > > mware/ovmf-
> > 
> > I got similar error when using gcc-4.9 when I built an old repository
> > that tracked
> > upstream. Then I did "git clean -fdx" to remove all stale files and
> > rebuilt. It
> > worked. Note that "git clean -fdx" is very aggressive in cleaning up
> > things.
> > 
> > After that I also tried building with gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.9 with the
> > changeset that
> > distributed with Xen. It worked, too. I use Debian Jessie to build
> > stuff. I don't
> > expect the distro plays an important role though.
> > 
> > Wei.
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