Stock kernels

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:59, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:

> 2.4:  A simple re-create to prove 'make rpm' works. No joy. :-(
> 
> A gcc thing??

I don't have a Severn system handy, but I tested 'make rpm' on my laptop
running RHL 9. I built up a 2.4.22rc2 kernel source tree, ran make
mrproper, copied the Severn i686 config into .config, then ran make
oldconfig. It stopped at two points, for drivers added into the kernel
tree after Severn's kernel. I set them both to M for kicks. I then ran
make dep, just for good measure. At this point, I ran make rpm. It
failed right at the end, when it tried to generate the debugfiles. You
probably don't need debugfiles, so I patched  scripts/mkspec to disable
that. After the patch, make rpm worked like a charm. (Patch is attached
to this email).

Now, if this fails in Severn, it is most likely a GCC issue. You may
want to set CC=gcc32 before building. There's nothing wrong with the
Severn config or 'make rpm' in the kernel source (with the exception of
the debugfiles issue).

~spot
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--- linux-2.4.21/scripts/mkspec.BAD	2003-08-19 19:25:33.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.4.21/scripts/mkspec	2003-08-19 19:26:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 echo "BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}-root"
 echo "Provides: $PROVIDES"
 echo "%define __spec_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress || :"
+echo "%define debug_package %{nil}"
 echo ""
 echo "%description"
 echo "The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself"