Re: Failed to set up the build environment for…

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 01:49:59PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> For now, the “solution” is to create it like this:
>>   sudo mknod /dev/kvm c 10 232
>> Can you confirm?
>
> Yes, that works. Together with /dev/shm (how is this affected by the change,
> by the way?), there are more and more things to change on a debian system.
> Hopefully your patch will go through. Could /dev/kvm not simply be dropped,
> instead of enabled according to the machine on which the daemon runs? Then
> we would be closer to a deterministic build also.

We can’t simply drop it, because we want to be able to use KVM in the
build environment.

That’s a minor issue, though, because (1) the only things that rely on
KVM are the VM build support, and (2) when the stand-alone GNU exists,
it will have /dev/kvm.

Ludo’.