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From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] seabios build failure in xen tree
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:32:10 +0100
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On 02/08/12 02:18, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:35:11PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>
>> Adding seabios ML.
>>
>> On 01/26/12 16:06, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 15:01 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>>> On 01/26/12 15:51, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 14:35 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>>>>> gmake[6]: Entering directory tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote
>>>>>>       Building ld scripts (version "1.6.3.1-20120126_152501")
>>>>>> env: python: No such file or directory
>>>>>> gmake[6]: *** [out/romlayout16.lds] Error 127
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The python scripts must be invoked with $(PYTHON) as done
>>>>>> throughout the build system.
>
> We can change the seabios makefile to call these scripts with an
> explicit $(PYTHON).

Awesome!

> However, it's odd that there isn't a default python on your system.
>
> [...]
>> What python version does SeaBIOS require?
>> I have python 2.5 installed.
>
> It should work with python 2.5 - there's nothing really special going
> on in the script.
>
>> I manually created a python symlink to that version and then I get
>> this failure:
>>
>> gmake[6]: Entering directory 'tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote'
>>    Building ld scripts (version "1.6.3.1-20120127_151243")
>> Fixed space: 0xe05b-0x10000  total: 8101  slack: 5 Percent slack: 0.1%
>> 16bit size:           46336
>> 32bit segmented size: 2005
>> 32bit flat size:      14699
>> 32bit flat init size: 53888
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 579, in<module>
>>      main()
>>    File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 576, in main
>>      writeLinkerScripts(sections, entrysym, genreloc, out16,
>> out32seg, out32flag)
>>    File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 257, in writeLinkerScripts
>>      + COMMONTRAILER
>> TypeError: int argument required
>
> That's quite odd.  This looks data related instead of python related.
> Try running a "make clean" and then "make" in just the seabios
> directory.  If you still see an issue, tar up the seabios "out/"
> directory and mail it to me.

It failed the same way.
I sent you the tarball offlist due its size.

Christoph


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