* Re: [Xen-users] Error compiling Xen in configuring stubdom/gmp with glibc-2.23 on Arch Linux
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From: Wei Liu @ 2016-03-09 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Thomson, Xen-devel; +Cc: Wei Liu
graft 53 !
thanks
Post this message to xen-devel so that bug tracker can pick it up.
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:38:47AM +1000, John Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am encountering an error compiling Xen (4.6.1) in configuring
> stubdom/gmp on x86_64 Arch Linux.
> I think it may be due to the system's glibc-2.23. System gcc is 5.3.0.
> Compiling was working fine before these system packages were updated.
> Other packages were updated at the same time, so I am not sure which to
> blame.
>
> Error:
> checking size of unsigned short... configure: error: cannot compute
> sizeof (unsigned short)
> See `config.log' for more details.
> Makefile:170: recipe for target 'gmp-x86_64' failed
> make[1]: *** [gmp-x86_64] Error 77
>
> Analysing the error in the configure test program, ferror after fprintf
> always returns 1.
> The program still appears to function as intended, and outputs the
> unsigned short size to conftest.val.
> Appending a clearerr(f) after the fprintf (f, ...) calls appears to
> workaround.
>
> When compiling the test program using system includes and libraries,
> ferror returns 0.
>
> My guess is that this may be due to using newlib cross-root includes and
> the system’s glibc libraries.
> I have not yet worked out how to resolve this. I have not been able to
> work out how to use -nostdlib and the cross-root libraries. I get errors
> for undefined functions.
> Could I get some help resolving this, or where can I go from here?
>
> The source for the configure test program and the gcc command configure
> used to compile should be here:
> https://gitlab.com/johnth/aur-xen/issues/1
>
> NixOS also appears to have run into this error:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/13590
>
> Thank you,
> --
> John Thomson
>
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