Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jonathan Schatz wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:41, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> > I'm sure you'll see places on the net downloading the
> > src.rpm's and recompiling them..can't imagine someone isn't doing that already...
> 
> we've been trying that here. unfortunately (at least for 2.1), we've
> never managed to get a _single_ kernel rpm to compile. which makes our
> life difficult, since our software ships with pre-compiled kernel
> modules for every distribution we support.

The 2.4.9 series enterprise kernels build just fine here from the srpms provided
by Red Hat. I initally used a 7.2 system to build all of the srpms the resulting
binaries I used to get a 2.1AS system up and running. I then recompiled everything
again on the 2.1AS system. In the end everything built except for about a half
dozen rpms like LaTex and the compatibility libraries. I never had a problem
getting the kernels to build.

> which means currently, we can't promise support for rhas. which is
> problematic for everyone involved, i think.

What compiler are you trying to build it with??

> has anyone else had this experience? i've got code to rsync the updates
> tree and rebuild everything, but the kernel never ever ever works. i
> managed to get one to build by going through and editing the order the
> patches were applied, but that's just ridiculous...

There must be something wrong with your build enviroment. This makes no sense
based on my experience.

FWIW there is more info here: 

http://www2.uibk.ac.at/zid/software/unix/linux/rhel-rebuild.htm

The above link also has a link to a mailing list for this type of discussion.

HTH,

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