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Did the xen-syms changes get worked into i686? Xen won't build right now on a pretty clean Arch install: http://pastebin.com/raw/SkCgkpNh

I can compile and install it, thanks! Tested on up-to-date Arch x86_64.

If you want to try with the latest Xen release (4.5.2) and an updated PKGBUILD, I've put my modifications on my personal website and I'm waiting for feedback before requesting merging. It may solve some building issues encountered before and also enables OVMF support (tested on an Ubuntu 15.10 VM). https://www.bullekeup.net/files/arch/packages/xen/srctarballs/ xen-ovmf packages are intended for people who want a standard Bios Xen boot, xen-efi is for people who want to actually boot xen via efi. Last one needs a PEP enabled binutils, which PKGBUILD is available here : https://www.bullekeup.net/files/arch/packages/binutils-pep/srctarballs/

Still, failed to build the package: checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-xen-elf checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln works... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. Makefile:83: recipe for target 'cross-root-i686/i686-xen-elf/lib/libc.a' failed make[1]: *** [cross-root-i686/i686-xen-elf/lib/libc.a] Error 77 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/build/xen/src/xen-4.5.1/stubdom' Makefile:73: recipe for target 'install-stubdom' failed make: *** [install-stubdom] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...

@ImATiger : I'm unable to reproduce the problem you encounter... I just have rebuild xen from scratch, just to be sure, no problem... Maybe a network problem ? (proxy, DNS, ...) @ata : You need to apply the patch supplied earlier (see previous comments) in order to be able to compile 32 bit executables. Or you can apply this patch for the PKGBUILD, with build dependencies on each package instead of multilib-devel meta package: --- PKGBUILD 2015-07-05 01:43:49.000000000 +0200 +++ PKGBUILD_new 2015-11-11 01:32:11.575921000 +0100 @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ depends=(bridge-utils curl gnutls iproute2 libaio libcap-ng libiscsi libjpeg-turbo libpng libseccomp lzo2 nss pixman pciutils python python2 sdl yajl spice usbredir) [[ "$CARCH" == "x86_64" ]] && depends+=(lib32-glibc) makedepends=(bin86 cmake dev86 git iasl markdown ocaml-findlib figlet wget spice-protocol) +[[ "$CARCH" == "x86_64" ]] && makedepends+=(gcc-multilib lib32-fakeroot lib32-libltdl) optdepends=('xen-docs: Official Xen Documentation' 'openvswitch: Optional Networking support') conflicts=(xen-4.2{,-testing-hg} xen-{gdbsx,hg-unstable,rc,git} xen-4.3{,-testing-hg}) backup=(etc/modules-load.d/$pkgname.conf etc/$pkgname/xl.conf etc/conf.d/xen{stored,consoled,domains,commons} etc/$pkgname/grub.conf) @cokomoko : Have you enough RAM available to compile the package ? I had issues in the past with many packages because they were to heavy to be compiled in RAM and since yaourt works in RAM by default (tmpfs)... Maybe try compiling the package yourself outside /tmp ? If this is not the problem, I don't think it is linked with makepkg / AUR system (I personally have successfully build this package several times). Maybe try searching in Xen mailing lists, and report your issue upstream if needed.

I've been trying to build xen for a couple days. It times out trying to download from xenbits.xen.org. This is just to inform anyone who can fix it.

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-xen-elf checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln works... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. Makefile:83: recipe for target 'cross-root-i686/i686-xen-elf/lib/libc.a' failed make[1]: *** [cross-root-i686/i686-xen-elf/lib/libc.a] Error 77 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-ata/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/stubdom' Makefile:73: recipe for target 'install-stubdom' failed make: *** [install-stubdom] Error 2 ==> HATA: build() içinde bir hata oluştu. Çıkılıyor... ==> HATA:makepkg xen'i inşa edemedi.

My system updated But it's a problem compilation: make[6]: Entering directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote' Building ld scripts Version: rel-1.7.5-0-ge51488c-dirty-20151104_014113-cokomoko Traceback (most recent call last): File "./scripts/layoutrom.py", line 709, in <module> main() File "./scripts/layoutrom.py", line 671, in main info16 = parseObjDump(infile16, '16') File "./scripts/layoutrom.py", line 586, in parseObjDump relocsection = sectionmap[sectionname] KeyError: '.text.asm./tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote/src/fw/smp.c.79' Makefile:155: recipe for target 'out/romlayout16.lds' failed make[6]: *** [out/romlayout16.lds] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote' /tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware/../../tools/Rules.mk:116: recipe for target 'subdir-all-seabios-dir' failed make[5]: *** [subdir-all-seabios-dir] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware' /tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware/../../tools/Rules.mk:111: recipe for target 'subdirs-all' failed make[4]: *** [subdirs-all] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware' Makefile:38: recipe for target 'all' failed make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/firmware' /tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/../tools/Rules.mk:116: recipe for target 'subdir-install-firmware' failed make[2]: *** [subdir-install-firmware] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools' /tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools/../tools/Rules.mk:111: recipe for target 'subdirs-install' failed make[1]: *** [subdirs-install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cokomoko/aur-xen/src/xen-4.5.1/tools' Makefile:69: recipe for target 'install-tools' failed make: *** [install-tools] Error 2 ==> HATA: build() içinde bir hata oluştu. Çıkılıyor... ==> HATA:makepkg xen'i inşa edemedi. ==> xen yeniden inşa edilsin mi ? [e/H] ==> ----------------------------------- ==>

FYI - I've been trying to free up some cycles in my spare time to go in and fix a number of things; more updates to follow

@cokomoko The bug you have is an old one (see http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-03/msg01687.html) It was related to a misdeclared array in symbols.c : symbols_offsets array was declared with a size of 4 bytes (an integer, even on 64 bit machines by default), triggering a warning / error on accesses bellow that size when building w/ some compilers (which is normal). But it has been patched since then (verified in current source tarball) I just builded Xen 4.5.1 on a fresh installed Arch (using patch provided before) without problem. May be try updating your system and do a clean build of the package ?