kernel build fails

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue May 3 16:17:59 UTC 2005


Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm try to rebuild the 2.6.11 kernel using the instructions at this web page, 
> mentioned in a recent post as a good guide.
> 
> http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/
> 
> I'm using the src rpm
> 
> kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.src.rpm
> 
> as the source, and have followed the instructions to the letter, using "i686" 
> as my ARCH (the output from uname -p)
> 
> everything is OK until step 8
> 
>  > rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec
> 
> .
> .
> .
> .
> + cp 
> -fv /home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i386.config /home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i586-smp.config /home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i586.config /home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i686-smp.config /home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i686.config .
> `/home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i386.config' -> 
> `./kernel-2.6.11-i386.config'
> `/home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i586-smp.config' -> 
> `./kernel-2.6.11-i586-smp.config'
> `/home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i586.config' -> 
> `./kernel-2.6.11-i586.config'
> `/home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i686-smp.config' -> 
> `./kernel-2.6.11-i686-smp.config'
> `/home/jonesc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11-i686.config' -> 
> `./kernel-2.6.11-i686.config'
> + for i in '*.config'
> + mv kernel-2.6.11-i386.config .config
> ++ head -1 .config
> ++ cut -b 3-
> + Arch=
> + make ARCH= nonint_oldconfig
> Makefile:448: /home/jonesc/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11/linux-2.6.11/arch//Makefile:

ARCH is empty.

Could you try building with:

$ rpmbuild -bb --target i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

instead of:

$ rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

and see if that helps?

Paul.




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