From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] xen: build fixes with gcc5 and binutils 2.25.0 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 22:52:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20160206035200.GB14513@localhost.localdomain> References: <1448041672-3986-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Ian Campbell , Pry Mar , cfergeau@redhat.com, Jan Beulich , Samuel Thibault List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 05:48:37PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: > > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > > > Here's a slew of build fixes as well as build warning fixes > > required when using the latest build tools, at least gcc 5 and > > binutils 2.25.0. > > One good reason for some folks to get discouraged to work with Xen: s/Xen/Any Open Source project/ Take a look in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, the " Don't get discouraged - or impatient" section. It mentions 'pinging'. > > Patches for fixes on builds last ages to get merged > > In this case Mark Pryor reported an issue and > offered a fix on October 8, 2015 [0]. That did not go in as Jan noted > it was probably not the right fix. Last year in November I provided > what I think is a proper replacement set which I think addressed Jan's > concerns. > > ***Four*** months later and Xen still does not compile with the latest > and greatest. I have to go digging out in my git basement somewhere > some fixes I last used to build Xen to try to test some new > features... Odd it does compile for me - albeit I've had issues with the VNC part which also needs another patch. But I hadn't had the chance to see whether the patch would break builds on much older version of distros. > > What's up folks? How can this process be made smoother, did I do > something wrong, what can I do to help better? What can you do to help > ensure these types of things don't fall through the cracks. ping? The same thing you would do on LKML. > > [0] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/264183 > > Luis