custom kernel

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 5 Feb 2005, at 19:23, ShashankBhide wrote:

> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. The build process failed at prep when I tried to build the  
>>> binaries.       rpmbuild -bb --target=i686  
>>> ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.*.spec .
>>> \+ cat .config
> + for i in '*.config'
> + mv kernel-2.6.10-i686.config .config
> ++ head -1 .config
> ++ cut -b 3-
> + Arch=
> + make ARCH= nonint_oldconfig
> Makefile:448:  
> /home/shashank/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10/arch// 
> Makefile: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target  
> `/home/shashank/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10/arch// 
> Makefile'.  Stop.
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.83269 (%prep)

Don't know why, but rpmbuild is leaving ARCH undefined. Thus, the build  
process doesn't know which architecture the kernel is being built for.

Try invoking rpmbuild without the --target=i686 parameter.