Re: 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence

[Patrick Colp <Patrick.Colp@citrix.com>]

Doing make xen and make tools should be just fine (I do this regularly, as 
I don't want or need Linux to be constantly rebuilt and reinstalled when 
I'm only changing things to Xen and/or tools).

Did you install them after building (make install-xen and make 
install-tools)? I think you need to be sudo for it to install properly.


Patrick


Michael David Crawford wrote:
> 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