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

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com> writes:

Nicolas> Le 03/02/2011 23:05, John Stoffel a écrit :
>>>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel<john@stoffel.org>  writes:
>> 
>> I've updated this email to include the maintainer and the linux-kbuild
>> mailing list.
>> 
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.

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

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

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

Thanks for the quick reply.  I'm doing a test build now, but I suspect
it will work just fine.  

John