Bug 99497

Summary: kernel.spec no longer supports --with/--without
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Keith Owens <kaos>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Keith Owens 2003-07-21 12:10:53 UTC
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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}

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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:

Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 2003-08-07 22:46:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99496 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:57:07 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.