From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from g4t3426.houston.hp.com ([15.201.208.54]:32192 "EHLO g4t3426.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754985AbaGWOJ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:09:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:08:34 -0500 From: scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com Subject: Re: Problem building xfsprogs Message-ID: <20140723140834.GJ14599@beardog.cce.hp.com> References: <20140722160641.GU17967@beardog.cce.hp.com> <20140722215151.GO25291@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140722215151.GO25291@thunk.org> Sender: fstests-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com List-ID: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 05:51:51PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:06:41AM -0500, scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com wrote: > > > > I'm trying to build xfsprogs (in order to run xfstests), and I'm running into this: > > What distribution are you building on? RHEL 6 update 5 on x86_64, which I would think is not considered to be anything exotic. [relliott@msablackburn include]$ cat /etc/*-release LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) [relliott@msablackburn include]$ But, I am not running the usual kernel, but this one git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/scsi.git from this branch: remotes/origin/scsi-mq.4 with a ton of patches to the hpsa driver (not that xfsprogs should care about that.). > I had a frustrating enough > time getting it to build on Ubuntu and Debian systems a while back > (not xfstests' fault; sometimes the distro doesn't ship all of the > header files or have recent enough libraries) that I created > xfstests-bld which does a hermetic build of xfstests. That way, it > doesn't depend on anything getting shipped by the distribution. > > It's also useful if you are running in a very restrictive run-time > environment, such as what you might find in a highly opimized cloud > data center, and you can't depend on any shared libraries, etc. Or if > you need to do a build for an embedded platform where again, you can't > depend on anything getting provided by the distribution. > > Anyway, give it a try and see if it helps, > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git > > If you have any problems, let me know! Thanks. If other avenues don't work out it is something to try. -- steve