Bug 99496
| Summary: | kernel.spec no longer supports --with/--without | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Keith Owens <kaos> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | riel |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-07 23:02:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** Bug 99497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** We removed the --with/out bits because they were too little value for the amount of verbage that got in the way near the top of the spec file. Also, it was easily possible to specify nonsensical combinations, and the feature definitions weren't necessarily kept up, which lead to more bug reports. Instead, just edit the appropriate define in the spec file, exchanging 0's and 1's as appropriate. All the leftover cruft you notice is gone in our current source tree. So part of this is "NOTABUG", another is "RAWHIDE"; I'll close RAWHIDE as the best alternative. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/7.10 (Linux 2.4.21-xfs i686; U) [en] Description of problem: RH 9 deleted these lines from kernel.spec # allow --with[out] <feature|kernel> at rpm command line build # e.g. --with smp --without smp --without BOOT --without bigmem --with ibcs # --with overrides --without %{?_without_up: %{expand: %%define buildup 0}} %{?_without_smp: %{expand: %%define buildsmp 0}} %{?_without_BOOT: %{expand: %%define buildBOOT 0}} ... so rpmbuild ignores --with/--without on the command line when building the kernel. The lines were in RH 8 (kernel-2.4.18-14.src.rpm), they are also missing from the latest RH 7, 8 and 9 errata kernel.spec files (kernel-2.4.20-18.[789].src.rpm). There is nothing in the changelog about removing this facility and the kernel.spec comments still say that --with/--without can be used. On the same subject, what do these lines do? Nothing seems to test the defined macros. # we can't test values inline, only whether a macro exists %{expand: %%define buildup_%{buildup} yadda} %{expand: %%define buildsmp_%{buildsmp} yadda} Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpmbuild -ba --without smp kernel-2.4.spec 2. 3. Actual Results: --without smp ignored on rh 9 and recent rh [78] errata kernels. Expected Results: Build without any of the SMP kernels. Additional info: