Re: Failed to set up the build environment for…

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>>> Another idea: does your machine have /dev/kvm?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> That’s indeed the problem:
>>
>>> 20584 stat("/dev/kvm", 0x7fff2745d348)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
>>> directory)
>>> 20584 futex(0x7f01cf335404, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
>>> 20584 write(2, "build error: getting attributes "..., 78) = 78
>>> 20584 exit_group(189)                   = ?
>>
>> For now, the “solution” is to create it like this:
>>
>>   sudo mknod /dev/kvm c 10 232
>
> This is very troubling to me.  KVM is not supported on my primary
> platform (Loongson).

Nevermind.  I see now that there's no actual dependency on KVM, and that
it merely wants a /dev/kvm node to propagate into the build environment.

     Mark