Xen devel - Apr 2012 - How to avoid this error "bits/predefs.h No such file or directory" when compiling XEN?

Hi , All

I try to compile xen-unstable.hg(25249:a4e7fce6ee2b) from source repo on
ubuntu11.10-amd64. It complains "/usr/include/features.h:323:26 fatal
error: bits/predefs.h No such file or directory". I wonder it''s a
thing related to 32bits and 64bits. How to solve this problem? Thank you.


Here are my steps:

[ Install prerequisites. ]

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install mercurial
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev pkg-config (These are shipped with ubuntu11.10)
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
sudo apt-get install uuid-dev
sudo apt-get install libyajl-dev
sudo apt-get install libaio-dev
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install flex
sudo apt-get install gettext
sudo apt-get install iasl
sudo apt-get install bcc
sudo apt-get install markdown
sudo apt-get install udev

[ Clone the repository. ]

hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg

[ Build it. ]

./configure
make world


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Wang zhihao

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:09 PM, wang zhihao <accept.acm@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi , All
>
> I try to compile xen-unstable.hg(25249:a4e7fce6ee2b) from source repo on
> ubuntu11.10-amd64. It complains "/usr/include/features.h:323:26 fatal
error:
> bits/predefs.h No such file or directory". I wonder it''s a
thing related to
> 32bits and 64bits. How to solve this problem? Thank you.
I had the same problem; it appears that tgcbios needs a 32-bit libc to
compile in 32 bits (full error message below).  This solved it for me:

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386

We should probably add that to one of the compile-time checks.  Roger,
do you have time to add that in?

Wang: BTW, in the future it''s helpful to include more of the
compilation than just the final error message.

 -George

make -C tcgbios all
make[10]: Entering directory
`/home/gdunlap/hg/open-source/xen-upstream.hg/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios''
gcc   -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -m32 -march=i686 -g
-fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
-D__XEN_TOOLS__ -MMD -MF .tcgbios.o.d  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -Werror -fno-stack-protector -fno-exceptions
-fno-builtin -msoft-float
-I/home/gdunlap/hg/open-source/xen-upstream.hg/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios/../../../../../tools/include
-I.. -I../..  -c -o tcgbios.o tcgbios.c
In file included from /usr/include/stdint.h:26:0,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/include/stdint.h:3,
                 from ../rombios_compat.h:8,
                 from tcgbios.c:24:
/usr/include/features.h:323:26: fatal error: bits/predefs.h: No such
file or directory
compilation terminated.

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 09:55 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:09 PM, wang zhihao <accept.acm@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Hi , All
> >
> > I try to compile xen-unstable.hg(25249:a4e7fce6ee2b) from source repo
on
> > ubuntu11.10-amd64. It complains "/usr/include/features.h:323:26
fatal error:
> > bits/predefs.h No such file or directory". I wonder it''s
a thing related to
> > 32bits and 64bits. How to solve this problem? Thank you.
> 
> I had the same problem; it appears that tgcbios needs a 32-bit libc to
> compile in 32 bits (full error message below).  This solved it for me:
What is tgcbios?
> sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386
> 
> We should probably add that to one of the compile-time checks.  Roger,
> do you have time to add that in?
Also please add it to the dependencies in the README.
> 
> Wang: BTW, in the future it''s helpful to include more of the
> compilation than just the final error message.
> 
>  -George
> 
> make -C tcgbios all
> make[10]: Entering directory
>
`/home/gdunlap/hg/open-source/xen-upstream.hg/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios''
> gcc   -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -m32 -march=i686 -g
> -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
> -D__XEN_TOOLS__ -MMD -MF .tcgbios.o.d  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
> -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -Werror -fno-stack-protector -fno-exceptions
> -fno-builtin -msoft-float
>
-I/home/gdunlap/hg/open-source/xen-upstream.hg/tools/firmware/rombios/32bit/tcgbios/../../../../../tools/include
> -I.. -I../..  -c -o tcgbios.o tcgbios.c
> In file included from /usr/include/stdint.h:26:0,
>                  from
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/include/stdint.h:3,
>                  from ../rombios_compat.h:8,
>                  from tcgbios.c:24:
> /usr/include/features.h:323:26: fatal error: bits/predefs.h: No such
> file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> 
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