So I was playing with rebuilding the OpenSUSE Tumbleweed container from scratch. (I've ~halfed it's size by correcting the dependencies).
When diffutils is missing (package containing the `cmp` utility), a build of Xen proceeds as: make: Entering directory '/build/xen' make: hostname: No such file or directory UPD include/xen/compile.h Xen 4.19-rc /bin/sh: line 1: cmp: command not found UPD include/compat/.xlat/xen.lst /bin/sh: line 1: cmp: command not found UPD include/compat/.xlat/arch-x86/pmu.lst /bin/sh: line 1: cmp: command not found /bin/sh: line 1: cmp: command not found without failing. I assert this is a bad thing and we should see about fixing it. A separate problem is that none of our docs mention diffutils, and OpenSUSE is the only distro I've found where they're not pulled in transitively. However, I'm planning a large rewrite to README when I've finished the Gitlab CI cleanup. ~Andrew
