On 17/04/2019 13:26, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:23:29PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 17/04/2019 12:16, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:15:04PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>> On 17/04/2019 12:03, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:58:49AM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>>>> On 17/04/2019 11:57, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:44:36AM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 17/04/2019 11:41, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:56:57AM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Here's what i did having pulled the master at commit cb70a26
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> tar xf /path/to/xen-cb70a26.tar.gz
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> cd xen-master/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 ./configure --prefix=/usr   \
>>>>>>>>>>>    --disable-seabios   \
>>>>>>>>>>>    --disable-qemu-traditional  \
>>>>>>>>>>>    --disable-rombios     \
>>>>>>>>>>>    --disable-stubdom 2>&1 | tee ../config.log
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> make EFI_DIR=/usr/lib/efi world 2>&1 | tee ../make_world_3.out
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>> gcc -Wp,-MD,tools/kconfig/.zconf.tab.o.d    -D_GNU_SOURCE
>>>>>>>>>>> -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1
>>>>>>>>>>> -DLOCALE  -Itools/kconfig -c -o tools/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
>>>>>>>>>>> tools/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
>>>>>>>>>>> gcc  -o tools/kconfig/conf tools/kconfig/conf.o 
>>>>>>>>>>> tools/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
>>>>>>>>>>> tools/kconfig/conf -s --silentoldconfig Kconfig
>>>>>>>>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen'
>>>>>>>>>>> make -f Rules.mk _install
>>>>>>>>>>> make[3]: Entering directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen'
>>>>>>>>>>> make -C tools
>>>>>>>>>>> make[4]: Entering directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen/tools'
>>>>>>>>>>> make symbols
>>>>>>>>>>> make[5]: Entering directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen/tools'
>>>>>>>>>>> gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
>>>>>>>>>>> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -o symbols
>>>>>>>>>>> symbols.c
>>>>>>>>>>> make[5]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen/tools'
>>>>>>>>>>> make[4]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen/tools'
>>>>>>>>>>> make -f /usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen/Rules.mk include/xen/compile.h
>>>>>>>>>>> make[4]: Entering directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen'
>>>>>>>>>>>  Xen 4.13-unstable
>>>>>>>>>>> /bin/sh: python: command not found
>>>>>>>>>>> make[4]: *** [Makefile:169: include/xen/compile.h] Error 127
>>>>>>>>>> Here. The PYTHON invocation is from the hypervisor build, not the 
>>>>>>>>>> tools
>>>>>>>>>> build.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the log.  I will have a closer look.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> make[4]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen'
>>>>>>>>>>> make[3]: *** [Makefile:137: /usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen/xen] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen'
>>>>>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:45: install] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master/xen'
>>>>>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:123: install-xen] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/xen/xen-master'
>>>>>>>>>>> make: *** [Makefile:165: world] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Note the
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> /bin/sh: python: command not found
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The issue here is on LFS there is no /usr/bin/python. So the 
>>>>>>>>> hypervisor
>>>>>>>>> build is broken because xen/include/compile.h invokes
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  @$(PYTHON) tools/fig-to-oct.py < .banner >> $@.new
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There are other appearances of PYTHON in hypervisor build, which are
>>>>>>>>> equally broken.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We had / have a policy to avoid making hypervisor build dependent on
>>>>>>>>> configure. I have CC'ed more people on their opinions.
>>>>>>>> Where has $(PYTHON) got lost?  It was specified correctly to begin 
>>>>>>>> with.
>>>>>>> Where is it specified?
>>>>>> Oh - I see now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is specified for ./configure, but not for make.
>>>>> Right.
>>>>>
>>>>> It works for tools because tools build includes config/Tools.mk which
>>>>> contains the correct python path. Tools.mk is generated by configure.
>>>>>  
>>>>> Obviously hypervisor build shouldn't include Tools.mk. Furthermore, the
>>>>> policy of "hv shouldn't depend on configure" makes this route a no-go.
>>>>>
>>>>> Either we change the policy, or we document the deficiency, or we come
>>>>> up with some clever trick to probe.
>>>> Given the shebang in all of our scripts, would `env python` be
>>>> sufficiently clever trickery, or is that a can of worms we'd prefer not
>>>> to open?
>>> I already tried env python -- it didn't work. I think it searches PATHS
>>> just like a shell would.
>>
>> So this particular use of python is completely trivial.  It is an octal
>> conversion on the banner string, to feed into a string for XEN_BANNER
>>
>> It exists because I removed a fork of figlet[1] from Xen's source tree
>> with this script, but its probably just as easy to do with awk or
>> something similar.
>>
>> ~Andrew
>>
>> [1] Yes - Xen did use to carry a fork of figlet which differed solely by
>> being able to output an octal-escaped string.  No - I have no words
>> which can possibly be used to defend this...
> 
> 
> But there are other less trivial ones. See xen/include/Makefile. XSM
> also relies on it to generate policy. What do you want to do with those?

Shouldn't _some_ settings of configure end up in the hypervisor build,
too? Like CC, AWK, SHELL, HOSTCC?

Maybe we need a rather small basic_tools.mk containing those settings
(with a sane default, of course)?


Juergen

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