Stock kernels

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:

>>>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 never heard of that before.  I compile rpm kernels by 
editing the kernel spec file, then typing:

rpmbuild -ba kernel-2.4.spec

just like any other package.  Anyone else can do so also.


>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.....

I'll download it and run it through rpm as described above.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat