Re: 2.6.38-rc3 - make deb-pkg bombs out

["Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>]

Le 03/02/2011 23:05, John Stoffel a écrit :
>>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel<john@stoffel.org>  writes:
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> I've updated this email to include the maintainer and the linux-kbuild
> mailing list.
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> John>  I've been trying to do a 'make deb-pkg' on 2.6.38-rc? and not
> John>  having any luck.  I was going to report this error for -rc2, but
> John>  saw -rc3 this morning so I grabbed it and tried it out.
>
> John>  I can successfully build the kernel on x86_64 (Ubuntu 10.10
> John>  system, dual core Athlon, 4gb RAM, current directory mounted via
> John>  NFS), but when I do:
>
> John>    fakeroot make O=/var/tmp/build deb-pkg
>
> Turns out the problem is with the "O=/var/tmp/build" since it works to
> build the deb-pkg target in the current directory just fine, using the
> same .config and same arguements.
>
> I guess I'll start to bisect this and see when it last worked.
> Looking at the scripts/package/builddeb script, it just needs to be
> updated to use the O=/some/path in the find command.  I think.  But I
> don't know the build system at all.

Hi John,

I submitted a patch that fix this problem on January 24th.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kbuild/msg04131.html

Despite a Tested-by: and an Acked-by:, this patch apparently didn't reach main line until now.

	Nicolas.