Re: [edk2-devel] OVMF will not start to build using "OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -n 40"

["Gary Lin" <glin@suse.com>]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 06:04:42AM +0000, Chen, Farrah wrote:
> Hi Gary,
> 
> Thanks a lot, we can build successfully with this method.
> BTW, will this patch be merged to upstream?
> 
I already reported the issue to bugzilla of the original patch:
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582

The maintainer will fix it.

Cheers,

Gary Lin

> 
> Thanks,
> Fan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Lin [mailto:glin@suse.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 12:07 PM
> To: Chen, Farrah <farrah.chen@intel.com>
> Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io; Hao, Xudong <xudong.hao@intel.com>; Wei, Danmei <danmei.wei@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] OVMF will not start to build using "OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -n 40"
> 
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 03:29:09AM +0000, Chen, Farrah wrote:
> > Yes, thanks, my return value is 1.
> > And how can we build ovmf correctlly? The build steps have been updated?
> > 
> You can tweak TestUtilModule() in edksetup.sh like this:
> 
>  function TestUtilModule()
>  {
>    if ( $PYTHON_COMMAND -c "import distutils.util" >/dev/null 2>&1 );then
> -      return 1
> +      return 0
>    else
>        echo Error: "No module named 'distutils.util"
> -      return 0
> +      return 1
>    fi
>  }
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gary Lin
> 
> > [vmm@vmm-build edk2]$ OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -n 40 Initializing 
> > workspace /home/fan/edk2/BaseTools Loading previous configuration from 
> > /home/fan/edk2/Conf/BuildEnv.sh
> > WORKSPACE: /home/fan/edk2
> > EDK_TOOLS_PATH: /home/fan/edk2/BaseTools
> > CONF_PATH: /home/fan/edk2/Conf
> > [vmm@vmm-build edk2]$ echo $?
> > 1
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Fan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: devel@edk2.groups.io [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of 
> > Gary Lin
> > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 11:20 AM
> > To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Chen, Farrah <farrah.chen@intel.com>
> > Cc: Hao, Xudong <xudong.hao@intel.com>; Wei, Danmei 
> > <danmei.wei@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] OVMF will not start to build using "OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -n 40"
> > 
> > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 02:31:13AM +0000, Chen, Farrah wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We build the latest OVMF and found that it doesn't start to build using "OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -n 40" actually.
> > > 
> > > Step:
> > > git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
> > > cd  edk2
> > > git submodule init
> > > git submodule update -recursive
> > > OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -n 40
> > > Then it didn't start to build.
> > > 
> > > log:
> > > [vmm@vmm-build edk2]$ OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -n 40 Initializing 
> > > workspace /home/fan/edk2/BaseTools Loading previous configuration 
> > > from /home/fan/edk2/Conf/BuildEnv.sh
> > > WORKSPACE: /home/fan/edk2
> > > EDK_TOOLS_PATH: /home/fan/edk2/BaseTools
> > > CONF_PATH: /home/fan/edk2/Conf
> > > [vmm@vmm-build edk2]$
> > > 
> > > We use the latest commit: 792f0d4f12ad5c01afdf9c92df8c479ff0f19a79, and we found the first commit has such issue is df7c81b5b219c9aee776baa466dd64c9d318dd80.
> > > Do you have any advice?
> > > 
> > TestUtilModule() returned the opposite value.
> > For the shell, 0 for good, and 1 for bad.
> > 
> > Gary Lin
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Fan
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