'make rpm' Failing due to i386 bug

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 29 14:19:49 EST 2001


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:06:15PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> 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.

No, we as of 2.4.10ish have a 'bzImage' target which calls 'zImage'
since most of the docs are braindead and say "Now type 'bzImage' or
'bzdisk'".

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