xen-system-amd64 recompilation from source broken in 16.04

[Stefan Bader]

On 23.03.2016 10:51, Éliás Tamás wrote:
> HI.
> 
>>> I had to install libsystemd-daemon-dev from an older ubuntu repository,
>>> which seemes to place the required pkgconfig file for the xen sources
>>> are looking for. I assume there is a need to merge  the old
>>> ibsystemd-daemon-dev package with the new libsystemd-dev.
>>>
>>>
>> Not really as long as the Debian/Ubuntu packaging is not enabling systemd (which
>> is not yet the case).
> 
> Then what should be the acceptable solution?
> 
> Currently the xen sources are not compiling on 16.04 without extra
> hacks. This is not the case with eg.: debian 8, that works out of the
> box after the required backages been installed. (yes, 16.04 has newer
> gnutls and for some reason the systemd packages been merged into one,
> but this breaks compiling xen sources)

If fetching the source directly from upstream works in Debian that might be luck
and may as well change any time. If you look at the Xen package in Debian this
is not just the upstream source either.
So either you will have to live with personal hacks or you might use the
existing distro packaging as a base for merging the new upstream version. Doing
that would allow to use a PPA for the build. Admittedly that is not a simple
task as debian packaging is a big area to learn. So personal hacks might be simpler.
There is just no way that the distro changes its packaging that late in the
cycle to satisfy compiling from upstream source. Even more so with something
like systemd which mostly everything depends on.

-Stefan
> 
> 


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