[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#818525: Bug#818525: xen: FTBFS: error: unterminated comment

[Stefan Bader]

On 17.03.2016 22:10, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm at hpe.com> wrote:
>> Package: xen
>> Version: 4.6.0-1+nmu2
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> This package fails to build in unstable:
>>
>>> sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.68.0 (15 Jan 2016) on dl580gen9-02.hlinux
>> ...
>>> mkdir -p compat
>>> grep -v 'DEFINE_XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(long)' public/grant_table.h | \
>>> python /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/build-hypervisor_amd64_amd64/xen/tools/compat-build-source.py >compat/grant_table.c.new
>>> mv -f compat/grant_table.c.new compat/grant_table.c
>>> gcc -E -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -m64 -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-local-typedefs -DNDEBUG -I/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/build-hypervisor_amd64_amd64/xen/include -I/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/build-hypervisor_amd64_amd64/xen/include/asm-x86/mach-generic -I/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/build-hypervisor_amd64_amd64/xen/include/asm-x86/mach-default -msoft-float -fno-stack-protector -fno-exceptions -Wnested-externs -DHAVE_GAS_VMX -DHAVE_GAS_EPT -DHAVE_GAS_FSGSBASE -mno-red-zone -mno-sse -fpic -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -DGCC_HAS_VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE -fno-builtin -fno-common -Werror -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-arith -pipe -g -D__XEN__ -nostdinc -DCONFIG_SHADOW_PAGING -DHAS_ACPI -DHAS_GDBSX -DHAS_PASSTHROUGH -DHAS_MEM_ACCESS -DHAS_MEM_PAGING -DHAS_MEM_SHARING -DHAS_PCI -DHAS_IOPORTS -DHAS_PDX -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -m64 -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-!
>  prot
>>> otypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-local-typedefs -include public/xen-compat.h -m32 -o compat/grant_table.i compat/grant_table.c
>>> compat/grant_table.c:33:1: error: unterminated comment
>>>  /*
>>>  ^
>>> compat/grant_table.c:28:0: error: unterminated #ifndef
>>>  #ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_GRANT_TABLE_H__
>>>  ^
>>> Makefile:61: recipe for target 'compat/grant_table.i' failed
>>> make[5]: *** [compat/grant_table.i] Error 1
>>> rm compat/features.i compat/callback.c compat/event_channel.i compat/elfnote.c compat/elfnote.i compat/features.c compat/event_channel.c compat/callback.i compat/grant_table.c
>>
> 
> I think you need this patch from upstream xen.git.

That or change grep calls to add --text or change build calls to have
LANG=C.UTF-8 set. Unfortunately a not well (imo) designed behaviour of grep to
suddenly switch into "this is a binary file" mode without returning an error code.

-Stefan

> 
> commit 3f293c7caaefc2c37b61e44e8ebd5a7f1c554afb
> Author:     Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli at citrix.com>
> AuthorDate: Thu Feb 25 13:03:04 2016 +0100
> Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse.com>
> CommitDate: Thu Feb 25 13:03:04 2016 +0100
> 
>     public: typo: use ' as apostrophe in grant_table.h
> 
> 
> Wei.
> 
> 
>> --
>> Martin Michlmayr
>> Linux for HPE Helion, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
>>
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