Bug 242528 – kernel build fails

Bug 242528 - kernel build fails

Summary:	kernel build fails

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.5
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact:	Martin Jenner
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Reported:	2007-06-04 14:01 EDT by Olaf
Modified:	2007-11-16 20:14 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2007-06-12 10:04:51 EDT
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Description Olaf 2007-06-04 14:01:45 EDT

Description of problem:
cannot build custom kernel from kernel-devel-2.6.9-55.EL:

*** End of Linux kernel configuration.
*** Execute 'make' to build the kernel or try 'make help'.

[root@r2d2-new 2.6.9-55.EL-x86_64]# make bzImage modules
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  UPD     include/linux/version.h
  SPLIT   include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
  CHK     include/asm-x86_64/offset.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/genksyms/lex.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/genksyms/parse.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/genksyms/genksyms
  CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
  MKELF   scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/sumversion.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/mod/modpost
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'.
 Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2

Comment 1 Prarit Bhargava 2007-06-12 10:04:51 EDT

[root@r2d2-new 2.6.9-55.EL-x86_64] ?

To extract a _proper_ source tree from an RPM do:

rpmbuild -bp source.rpm

Then build the resultant directory in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/....

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