Re: 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence

[Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michael David Crawford writes ("[Xen-devel] 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence"):
>> However, no matter what I try, the build hits the Mercurial server to 
>> download the Linux kernel sources.  I have tried a number of things, but 
>> I am completely unable to prevent the download.
> 
> The build system is rather unfortunate.  You can completely prevent
> the Xen build from building a kernel by setting XKERNELS=''
> You'll have to build the kernel yourself then of course.

I'm afraid that didn't work - it still downloaded from Mercurial, and is 
building it now.

I'm just going to let it build, but use a kernel that I previously built.

Jeremy's suggestion to "make fetch-dependencies" is I think a good one.

I've tried "make xen" and "make tools", rather than "make world", but 
the impression I have is that they leave the build incomplete somehow. 
I was never able to get a DomU to load and would get all sorts of arcane 
messages.

I promise to keep trying though - I really *want* Xen to work.

I don't think it's so bad to automatically fetch all the dependencies 
other that Linux.

One reason I wanted to have my own Linux kernel was so I could use a 
RAID driver that I backported to 2.6.18 from the current release.  I 
would imagine many users would have specific requirements for their 
Linux kernel that the default Xen Linux cannot satisfy.

Mike
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