Re: [Xen-users] Error in "make tools" for Xen-4.2-unstable

["Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <singapore.mr.teo.en.ming@gmail.com>]

On 17/03/2012 18:52, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 10:36 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>> On 17/03/2012 18:18, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 09:42 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>>>> On 17/03/2012 17:26, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>> Please do not top post, it destroys the flow of the conversation.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 08:40 +0000, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have ran ./configure but it doesn't work and results in an error.
>>>>> Which you have once again failed to actually read.
>>>>>
>>>>>> teo-en-ming@ubuntu-1110-amd64-desktop:~/xen-unstable.hg$ ./configure
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> checking for yajl_alloc in -lyajl... no
>>>>>> configure: error: Could not find yajl
>>>>> You need to install the yajl library.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ian.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Dear Ian,
>>>>
>>>> I don't believe the steps are so tedious and complicated for
>>>> xen-unstable.hg. I have used the following steps for xen-4.1-testing.hg
>>>> and all went smoothly without errors.
>>>>
>>>> make xen
>>>> make tools
>>>> sudo make install-xen
>>>> sudo make install-tools PYTHON_PREFIX_ARG=
>>>>
>>>> Something must be wrong in the source tree for xen-unstable.hg.
>>> No, there is nothing wrong, there have simply been some changes in
>>> xen-unstable.
>>>
>>> Xen now uses configure (AKA autoconf), in common with a large proportion
>>> of open source software. It also has an additional dependency on the
>>> yajl library. I don't think there is anything unusually burdensome about
>>> either of those changes and in both cases an informative message was
>>> printed.
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Dear Ian,
>>
>> Is there a wiki for building xen-4.2-unstable, and if there is, are the
>> recent changes reflected in the wiki?
> These changes to the build have been reflected in the README at the top
> level of the Xen source code tree, which is where the process for
> building Xen has always been documented.
>
> Ian.
>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
>
>
Dear Ian,

I have written out all the steps for building and installing from 
Xen-4.2-unstable, as follows:

Building Xen-4.2-unstable

If you wish to build and install from xen-unstable.hg instead,

cd
git clone git://github.com/lloyd/yajl
cd yajl
sudo apt-get install ruby cmake
./configure
make
sudo make install

cd
hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg
cd xen-unstable.hg
./configure
make world
sudo make install

I have also added the above steps into my Installation Instructions PDF 
document version 1.1.

Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,

Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)