On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Juan Quintela wrote: > --=-=-= > Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 2.4.12 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 4mdk Build Date: Wed Oct 24 00:06:39 2001 > Install date: (not installed) Build Host: bi.mandrakesoft.com > Group : System/Kernel and hardware Source RPM: (none) > Size : 30787247 License: GPL > Packager : Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system). > Description : > The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your > Linux Mandrake operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions > of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device > input and output, etc. > > --=-=-= > > * Tue Oct 23 2001 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.4.12-4mdk > > - make -up & -smp config files until I found a better way to work with that. > - rebuilt all the .configs.
Defaults to building SMP under PPC and there is no config file for it: install: cannot stat `/usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/kernel-2.4.12-ppc-smp.config': No such file or directory And the config names for PPC and Alpha aren't named properly. Should be along the lines of kernel-2.4.12-ppc-up.config Then in the spec theres also two lines of: %define build_enterprise 1 One of which isn't wrapped in an ifarch, so again, PPC and Alpha will try and build an enterprise kernel which won't work... And theres lots of options in the config for PPC which aren't defined that it questions about during building.. (about 30 or so) Then the ide still doesn't build because of problems with the lba48 patches that I mentioned in an email to the list a few days ago... There's a missing "/" in include/asm-ppc/ide.h when patched, and arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c needs to be patched.. These packages not building under PPC is getting very discouraging and seems to indicate that PPC isn't something that the Mandrake developers really care about. Can you please run a build against PPC before releasing packages? I'm even willing to play guinea pig.. I know that Stew was hoping to get the lba48 stuff patched before this kernel was released, but... didn't happen.. Should there be releases of packages that should be working on the PPC but don't compile properly? Perhaps hold off on releasing a package until it compiles on both platforms? You wouldn't release a SRPM that doesn't compile on x86 (other than something platform specific like MOL). Ian ------------------------------------------- Ian White email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
