Re: seabios build failure in xen tree

[Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:35:11PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 
> Adding seabios ML.
> 
> On 01/26/12 16:06, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 15:01 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
> >> 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.

We can change the seabios makefile to call these scripts with an
explicit $(PYTHON).  However, it's odd that there isn't a default
python on your system.

[...]
> What python version does SeaBIOS require?
> I have python 2.5 installed.

It should work with python 2.5 - there's nothing really special going
on in the script.

> I manually created a python symlink to that version and then I get
> this failure:
> 
> gmake[6]: Entering directory 'tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote'
>   Building ld scripts (version "1.6.3.1-20120127_151243")
> Fixed space: 0xe05b-0x10000  total: 8101  slack: 5 Percent slack: 0.1%
> 16bit size:           46336
> 32bit segmented size: 2005
> 32bit flat size:      14699
> 32bit flat init size: 53888
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 579, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 576, in main
>     writeLinkerScripts(sections, entrysym, genreloc, out16,
> out32seg, out32flag)
>   File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 257, in writeLinkerScripts
>     + COMMONTRAILER
> TypeError: int argument required

That's quite odd.  This looks data related instead of python related.
Try running a "make clean" and then "make" in just the seabios
directory.  If you still see an issue, tar up the seabios "out/"
directory and mail it to me.

-Kevin