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It almost builds. It builds, but then fails when packaging here: mv "${pkgdir}/usr/lib64/efi/xen".efi "${pkgdir}/boot". The folder .../lib64 doesn't exist, and xen.efi isn't built. I don't have any idea why. After all the build works (after using the patched PKGBUILD). Can somebody explain why the xen.efi binaries aren't built? Tried to understand the makefiles, ..I guess some precondition isn't met but I have no fing idea.

It builds fine (is valgrind necessary? quite a large dependency).

Got this when trying to install: https://gist.github.com/invisiblek/01920f2b63f37e7d0d317ae549c9de00 It's due to an empty /usr/lib64 dir in the package which is residual from the mv of efi in package() function. Add an rmdir "$pkgdir"/usr/lib64/ after the mv on line 97 and it installs fine.

Your PKGBUILD does not include a grub helper like this one does, so creating a grub config would have to be done manually or something after installation. I'm not sure the best way to handle that situation (for an official build you probably need to handle more than just grub as the user's bootloader?).

FF,

I have not yet tried your package, just had a quick look over it.

It has been years since I tried to use Arch system qemu and ovmf (typo in your optdepends), and it would be delightful to find these just worked now...

When I did:

• Xen could not use OVMF's code.fd and vars.fd separately. It would be very simple to split Arch's OVMF package to ship the unified file in another package. The Arch bug has been ignored for years https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58635

• QEMU seems to need to be built with Xen headers in place for Xen backend support Debian installs libxen-dev before building QEMU https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/blob/debian-unstable/debian/control-in https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/blob/master/debian/control Xen uses --enable-xen for the in-tree copy https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=tools/Makefile;h=c10946e3b15a5a14aa83e4bbfda759b3681692de;hb=HEAD#l241

It would be great to see this tested and packaged. Cheers

Hey guys. I have been working on a PKGBUILD but haven't been able to test it.

https://paste.xinu.at/6PR/

Can anyone see if there are any issues? If everything is fine we can go ahead and move it to the official repos.

This commit fixes the current build issue: http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=368375d7360a38c27de8e0276498bdd29e9e8a03

Sadly that commit hasn't been backported to the 4.12 branch, so it has to be patched during makepkg. I suppose you could also downgrade your ocaml to something before 4.09 and things would work again too...but that seems foolish.

Possible solutions here:

1. Fix up the current 4.12.1 build like so: https://github.com/invisiblek/xen-aur/commits/4.12.1-2

2. Step one plus update to 4.12.2 while we're at it: https://github.com/invisiblek/xen-aur/commits/4.12.2-1

3. Move to 4.13.0: https://github.com/invisiblek/xen-aur/commits/4.13.0-1

All three do require this minor patch to remove a now deprecated flag in qemu: https://github.com/invisiblek/xen-aur/commit/168fbdaa33265c4902ebfd5e8def892b0c2c14ca

I'll be testing with my 4.13.0-1 branch for now.

I see FFY00 mentioned official repos a couple months ago, unsure the status on that as of yet. Maybe I'll ping them on irc one of these days and see where that whole thing is at.

For now at least we can have working builds again :)

Getting the same error as @schweratlet, installing with pikaur.

@mbroemme I'm getting the same error when trying to install (installing with yay -S xen. though I hope it doesn't make a difference.

make -C xentoollog install make[8]: Entering directory '/home/shogoro/.cache/yay/xen/src/xen-4.12.1/tools/ocaml/libs/xentoollog' python2 genlevels.py _xtl_levels.mli.in _xtl_levels.ml.in _xtl_levels.inc MLDEP MLC xentoollog.cmo MLA xentoollog.cma CC xentoollog_stubs.o xentoollog_stubs.c: In function 'stub_xtl_ocaml_vmessage': xentoollog_stubs.c:93:16: error: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers] 93 | value func = caml_named_value(xtl->vmessage_cb) ; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ xentoollog_stubs.c: In function 'stub_xtl_ocaml_progress': xentoollog_stubs.c:123:16: error: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers] 123 | value func = caml_named_value(xtl->progress_cb) ; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors )

It leaves a whole bunch of directories and then.

make[1]: [Makefile:74: install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/shogoro/.cache/yay/xen/src/xen-4.12.1/tools' make: [Makefile:127: install-tools] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... Error making: xen

Is this in any way my fault? Any advice? I have installed Xen successfully before, more specifically twice 4-5 months ago both on a fresh install. This is the first time I'm encountering such an error. I've tried it several times.

@FFY00 oh please do!

In regards to CIS, this is the only package remaining that we use outside of the official repos.

Hey, I want to move this to the official repos. Are you ok with that?

@mbroemme - do you plan on dropping the python2 dependency in favor of python? Also, would you be willing to consider switching the brltty dependency to the brltty-minimal available in AUR?

Thanks in advance!