[Beignet] build problems: ASSERTION FAILED: Fail to create the gen context

[Zhigang Gong]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 07:53:42AM +0200, Adel Gadllah wrote:
> Zhigang Gong:
> >On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 01:33:14AM +0400, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've long time no tested beignet builds. Now I've updated it to 0.9.0 in
> >>Fedora rawhide[0].
> >>
> >>And it failed to build.
> >>
> >>Generating ../../utests/../kernels/compiler_ceil.bin
> >>Unknown opt
> >>/builddir/build/BUILD/Beignet-0.9.0-Source/build/backend/src/gbe_bin_generater: option requires an argument -- 't'
> >>
> >>ASSERTION FAILED: Fail to create the gen context
> >>   at
> >>file /builddir/build/BUILD/Beignet-0.9.0-Source/backend/src/backend/gen_program.cpp, function virtual gbe::Kernel* gbe::GenProgram::compileKernel(const gbe::ir::Unit&, const string&, bool), line 167
> >>
> >>And etc. I'm attaching FULL build log.
> >>
> >>[0]http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/beignet.git/commit/?id=0c45e57cbecf72e1a5f243bbc0f375e3f19a2b03
> >>-- 
> >>-Igor Gnatenko
> >
> >>/builddir/build/BUILD/Beignet-0.9.0-Source/src/GetGenID.sh: line 3: lspci: command not found
> >>-- Platform Gen PCI id is
> >The root cause is that now beignet will build internal binary kernels according current build host's
> >Gen VGA PCI id.
> This can't work for distributions that want to ship beignet. The
> system it gets build on is not the one it runs on. Also distribution
> build systems tend to be virtual machines that do not have any real
> (or intel) vga hardware.
You are right, this is a problem for distributions. I just realized this issue when
I replied to Igor. We will discuss how to make it friendly for package maintainer soon.
Thanks for pointing this out.