On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:46 -0600, S B wrote: > Hi all, > I made an attempt to custom build a kernel from the src.rpm. I > followed the tutorial by Kevin Hobbs to complete the task. > I have several questions with the build process. I did read a couple > of tutorials before I actually build the kernel. > > > 1. The build process failed at prep when I tried to build the binaries. > rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.*.spec . > I followed the tutorial (Kernel Compilation Tutorial-Kevin Hobbs) > step by step but could not build the kernerl. What error message did you get? > 2. So, I decided to build the binaries directly without rpmbuild -bp step. > So i installed the src.rpm, > then rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.*.spec. This went > smooth, except it took more > than a couple of hours to build the rpms. > > So, is it normal for the build process to take this long? Depends on machine you're building on, but I'd say "yes". > Why did the build process fail via the first method? (I should be able > to provide more information on this, I do not have the tmp files right > now) The error messages you get would be necessary to diagnose this. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
