Re: seabios build failure

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>]

On 01/26/12 15:51, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 14:35 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
>> gmake[6]: Entering directory tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote
>>     Building ld scripts (version "1.6.3.1-20120126_152501")
>> env: python: No such file or directory
>> gmake[6]: *** [out/romlayout16.lds] Error 127
>>
>>
>> The python scripts must be invoked with $(PYTHON) as done
>> throughout the build system.
>
> SeaBIOS uses:
> $ rgrep -i python tools/firmware/seabios-dir
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/transdump.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/buildrom.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/checkstack.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/encodeint.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/layoutrom.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/checkrom.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/readserial.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/readserial.py:Or: apt-get install python-serial
> tools/firmware/seabios-dir/tools/checksum.py:#!/usr/bin/env python
>
> Does this not work? Should python be on your $PATH?

It is. But the python binary on NetBSD's pkgsrc
is called python<version> to allow concurrent installations of different
python versions.
So I can have: python2.5, python2.6, python2.7, python3.1, etc.

Christoph

>
> Since SeaBIOS is third party code we are not so much at liberty to make
> the same sorts of policy decisions as we would for our own code.
>
> You could perhaps attempt to work around this by invoking the recursive
> make into the seabios directory with PATH=$(dir-only $(PYTHON):$PATH or
> whatever the appropriate runes are.
>
> Or you could try posting a patch to SeaBIOS-devel, I don't know what
> their thinking on this sort of thing is.
>
> Ian.
>
>


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