Re: pkg/39243: Xen3 "make" options needed

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39243; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39243: Xen3 "make" options needed
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:09:10 +0200

 On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:15:00AM +0000, 
randolf+netbsd.org%inter-corporate.com@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         39243
 > >Category:       pkg
 > >Synopsis:       Xen3 "make" options needed
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 29 00:15:00 +0000 2008
 > >Originator:     Randolf Richardson
 > >Release:        NetBSD v4.99.70
 > >Organization:
 > Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
 > >Environment:
 > NetBSD netbsd.test.lumbercartel.ca 4.99.70 NetBSD 4.99.70 (XEN3_DOM0) #0: 
 > Mon Jul 21 04:34:08 PDT 2008  
 > builds@wb38:/home/builds/ab/HEAD/i386/200807210002Z-obj/home/builds/ab/HEAD/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3_DOM0
 >  i386
 > >Description:
 > The package (from pkgsrc-current downloaded on 2008-Jul-18) 
 > /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/xenkernel3/ needs some "make" options.  Keeping in mind 
 > that the current build is 32-bit without PAE, here are two options that 
 > would be extremely useful:
 > 
 > "make pae" to compile a 32-bit xen3 kernel with PAE support
 > "make 64bit" to compile a 64-bit xen3 kernel
 > 
 > A default "make 32bit" should also be added, and then if any (or all) three 
 > of these options are specified, kernels should be built for each of them 
 > (with resulting kernel files named accordingly).
 
 Why do you want this ? the xenkernel3 package will build a 32bit xen.gz on
 a i386 host, and a 64bit xen.gz on a amd64 host. I'm not sure why you'd
 want a 32bit xen.gz on a amd64 (and this wouldn't boot anyway).
 I'm also not sure why you'd want a 32bitPAE xen.gz as we don't have a
 dom0 kernel capable of running on it. building a 64bit xen.gz on a i386 host
 is just not possible without cross-build tools, which is out of the scope
 of pkgsrc.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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