[Skiboot] [PATCH] specfile: Fix build issues

Vasant Hegde hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Feb 11 16:34:56 AEDT 2016


On 02/10/2016 06:30 PM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 02/09/2016 01:44 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote:
>> We have "%{?_smp_mflags}" in specfile. This will initiate multiple jobs.
>> In some cases (like opal-prd), we have to first create symbolic link
>> and then start compilation. Because of multiple jobs created by make,
>> we hit below error.
>>
>> ln -sfr ../../ccan ./ccan
>> ln -sfr ../common ./common
>> ln -sfr ../../libflash ./libflash
>> make: *** No rule to make target 'libflash/blocklevel.c', needed by 'libflash-blocklevel.o'.  Stop.
>> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> make: Leaving directory '/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/skiboot-skiboot-5.1.13/external/opal-prd'
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ZG2RS6 (%build)
> 

Cedric,

> This is bizarre. I could not reproduce with a -j16. 
> 

Hmmm. I should have elaborated little bit. I couldn't reproduce this issue on
RHEL 7.2 .. But I am hitting this issue in fedora 23.


> The Makefile does use a special order-only prerequisite for the links :
> 
> 	$(OBJS): | links arch_links

This looks correct .. But we hit issue in external/opal-prd

 55 $(OBJS): $(LINKS)


Hence I've disable  "%{?_smp_mflags}"  for all except skiboot compilation.


-Vasant



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