custom kernel
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sat Feb 5 12:46:25 UTC 2005
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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