[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3-kexec-tools (latest git update) compiling problems (on PS3)

[Geoff Levand]

On 12/22/2007 01:49 AM, Goffredo Marocchi wrote:
> I cleaned up the directory I cloned the git repo in question and then I 
> cloned it again:
> 
> 
> [root at IGGS-PS3 src]# git clone 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-kexec-tools.git 
> ps3-kexec
> Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/ps3-kexec/.git/
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 2230 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 2230 objects...
> remote:  100% (2230/2230) done
> Indexing 2230 objects...
> remote: Total 2230 (delta 1585), reused 1987 (delta 1398)
>  100% (2230/2230) done
> Resolving 1585 deltas...
>  100% (1585/1585) done
> 
> 
> 
> I usually only needed to run autoconf  and then ./configure 
> --prefix=/usr   but if I do just that I get an error (about 
> include/config.h):
> 
> [root at IGGS-PS3 ps3-kexec]# autoconf
> [root at IGGS-PS3 ps3-kexec]# ./configure --prefix=/usr
> checking build system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for ld... ld
> checking for as... as
> checking for objcopy... objcopy
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for mkdir... mkdir
> checking for rm... rm
> checking for cp... cp
> checking for ln... ln
> checking for tar... tar
> checking for rpmbuild... rpmbuild
> checking for sed... sed
> checking for find... find
> checking for xargs... xargs
> checking for dirname... dirname
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking zlib.h usability... yes
> checking zlib.h presence... yes
> checking for zlib.h... yes
> checking for inflateInit_ in -lz... yes
> checking xenctrl.h usability... no
> checking xenctrl.h presence... no
> checking for xenctrl.h... no
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: WARNING:  Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir 
> setting
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: include/config.h.in
> 
> 
> If I run autoheader (and why not autoconf again although it makes no 
> difference I'd think) and then ./configure --prefix=/usr then it 
> successfully completes.
> 
> A good make clean, followed by a make all brings this error though:
> gcc -melf64ppc --no-undefined -nostartfiles -nostdlib -nodefaultlibs -e 
> purgatory_start -r -o purgatory/purgatory.ro purgatory/purgatory.o 
> purgatory/printf.o purgatory/string.o purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.o 
> purgatory/arch/ppc64/purgatory-ppc64.o 
> purgatory/arch/ppc64/console-ppc64.o 
> purgatory/arch/ppc64/crashdump_backup.o purgatory/sha256.o
> /usr/bin/ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format 
> elf64-powerpc (purgatory/purgatory.o) to format elf32-powerpc 
> (purgatory/purgatory.ro) is not supported
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [purgatory/purgatory.ro] Error 1
> 
> 
> Is there something I am missing that is causing both errors ?

These are not specific to ps3, I recommend you post to
the kexec at lists.infradead.org mail list so these can be
discussed with the kexec maintainers.

The only thing ps3-kexec-tools adds is a hack to support 2.6.16
legacy kernels.
 
-Geoff