custom kernel

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:46 -0600, S B wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I made an attempt to custom build a kernel from the src.rpm. I
> followed the tutorial by Kevin Hobbs to complete the task.
>   I have several questions with the build process. I did read a couple
> of tutorials before I actually build the kernel.
> 
> 
> 1. The build process failed at prep when I tried to build the binaries.  
>       rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.*.spec .
>     I followed the tutorial (Kernel Compilation Tutorial-Kevin Hobbs)
> step by step but could not build the kernerl.

What error message did you get?

> 2. So, I decided to build the binaries directly without rpmbuild -bp step. 
>     So i installed the src.rpm,
>     then rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.*.spec. This went
> smooth, except it took more
>     than a couple of hours to build the rpms. 
> 
> So, is it normal for the build process to take this long?

Depends on machine you're building on, but I'd say "yes".

> Why did the build process fail via the first method? (I should be able
> to provide more information on this, I do not have the tmp files right
> now)

The error messages you get would be necessary to diagnose this.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>