On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:07:49PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>>On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Maynard Kuona wrote:
>> >Like recently, the
kernel.org kernels will not build because of how
>> Redhat split rpm into rpm and rpmbuild.
>>
>> I don't quite understand what you're saying here.
kernel.org
>> kernels compile just fine on Red Hat Linux. Not sure what your link
>> to rpm is, except perhaps a misunderstanding.
>
>Probably looked at an old
kernel.org Makefile. Here's current pieces:
[snip]
>So you can see that rpmbuild is accounted for.
Ah. I never didn't know such targets even existed. Then again I
haven't looked at the kernel Makefile in an enormously long time
either. ;o)
Oddly, I'm able to compile kernels left right and center whenever
desired, patched or unpatched, in rpm format or stock tarballs.
I prefer our rpm based ones though. ;o)
Mike,
I definitely second the motion. If only 'make rpm' worked.
I've been trying since 2.5.62 with no luck. I upgraded three key Shrike
rpms as recommended, yet every compile attempt aborts with a fatal error
during the 'make modules' subtask. Whenever I change the errant module
from "M" to "N" in .config and start over, the failure occurs
somewhere
else.
True frustration arrived when I found that 'make rpm' behaves as badly
when run against the Severn kernel-source rpm as it does using a
kernel.org tarball. Fewer "deprecated" warnings, but still.....
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL