Kernel compilation from src.rpm

Kevin H. Hobbs kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu
Mon Jan 30 22:14:59 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 14:15 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:05:53PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 14:01 -0500 schrieb Kevin H. Hobbs:
> > 
> > And then:
> > 
> > > Then rebuild the kernel.
> > > 
> > > 	rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-xyz.src.rpm
> > 
> > HTH
> 
> Depending on what for you are building you may also need your target
> specified.  If this is for the same target you are running at the
> moment then you can use
> 
>         rpmbuild --rebuild --target=$(uname -m) kernel-xyz.src.rpm
> 
> or you may end up with i386 kernel when i686 was really desired.
> 
> The same should be taken into a consideration if you are building
> extra kernel modules.
> 
>    Michal
> 

Doh, yup that's particularly important as the original poster wanted to
recompile a kernel and there is ( last time I checked ) no i386 target.

My answer's getting wronger and wronger.
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