Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 90893
kernel source 2.4.20-8 does not build
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:44 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461) Description of problem: The kernel source will build, but the 'rpm' make target will bomb with non-existent "debug files". %file file No such file or directory rpm error 1 /var/tmp, /usr/src/redhat/BUILD and SPECS are normal Gets almost to the end This is gcc 3.2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8 2.make mrproper 3.cp ./configs/<i686smp file> ./.config 4.make menuconfig Here I change some needed SCSI bits to be built-in SCSI support, SCSI disk support, megaraid, aic7xxx 5.make dep 6.make clean 7.make rpm 8.lots of churning (of course), bombs rpm error 1 Additional info:
that spec is LSB compliant....
"LSB compliant" invocation of make rpm? Must be related to new O_DIRECT semantics, I'm unaware of any changes in this area ... Fix the Makefile to invoke rpmbuild, not rpm. That's a kernel packaging, not rpm, problem.
Is this just the problem when rpm tries to make a default debug package and fails because it isn't set up sufficiently? I am sure I have seen a workaround where you turn off the debuginfo generation by setting the right rpm macro.
This is the line I was thinking of %debug_package %{nil}
Which translates to %define debug_package %{nil} if you want to add it to the spec file
Yes, this is a problem with the default debug package build failing. Since the spec file is built dynamically, I am at a loss regarding the concrete steps necessary to make this problem go away. I would suggest that the kernel-source rpm should be fixed so that it works straightaway, and you need to do something special to make it fail. Currently, it fails when you try to do expected things, like make an install RPM file.
I think you may be able to edit the kernel.spec once it has been created; if not edit the file that generates it, scripts/mkspec , which is a very simple script.
In scripts/mkspec I added as line 39: echo "%define debug_package %{nil}" Success!
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