'make rpm' Failing due to i386 bug

Ethan Benson erbenson at alaska.net
Thu Nov 29 12:06:15 EST 2001


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:32:24PM -0500, Joseph Manojlovich wrote:
>
> > Hey all. I was using the latest stable branch from source.mvista.com,
> > and noticed that 'make rpm' wasn't working. Looking closer, I noticed
> > that a supporting script, scripts/mkspec, is quite 386 specific. It
> > makes an rpm spec file that assumes the kernel image is compressed,
> > which with ppc it isn't (for me at least).
>
> You could try %ifarch ppc ... %else .. %endif.  Tho we do have a
> 'bzImage' target, and yaboot might even do the 'zimages' on pmac as well
> as chrp now.  Talk to Alan Cox since this is his script anyhow.

no we have a zImage target, not bzImage which is a i386 specific hack
to work around that braindamaged architecture.

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Ethan Benson
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