rebuild kernel src.rpm woes

[Matt Hansen]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:40, Matt Hansen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to rebuild the kernel 2197 src.rpm for athlon and i386 but it
> keeps failing with the following exit status in the i386 build section:
> ln: creating symbolic link
> `/var/tmp/kernel-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl.mh-root/lib/modules/*/build' to
> '../../../usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2197.mh': No such file or directory.
> bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.34893 (%install)

Well, it turns out that the kernel spec wasn't finding the source files
in the existing /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl directory (i.e. those
installed by kernel-source) because it was expecting them in
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl.mh ("mh" being the extra text
recommended to be added to the Release field for custom kernels).
Creating a symlink from /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl.mh to
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl enabled the spec to find the source
files and complete the builds of kernel/kernel-doc/kernel-source.

What I'd like to know is why I had to manually create that symlink? I
thought it should have been done automatically (if so needed) in the
spec file. I haven't read anything mentioning the need to do this so
maybe there's something amiss with my system configuration? Any thoughts
welcome.

Regards,
Matt
-- 
"Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?"
 - Bob Young on the benefits of the open source development model.
mhelios - www.fedoraforum.org 

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