Package: kernel-package Version: 12.036+nmu3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
make-kpkg fails to build a kernel-package for linux-3.7.1 (and possibly earlier versions) when CONFIG_MODULES is unset. The reason for this seems to be the following regular expression to check the kernel config file for module support which appears several times in the ruleset files: grep -E ^[^\#]*CONFIG_MODULES $(CONFIG_FILE) Unfortunately somewhere between linux 3.4 and 3.7 new config defines got added, namely CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_REL and CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA which are set even if CONFIG_MODULES is unset. The above regexp obviously also matches these new defines which makes make-kpkg think that it's building a kernel package including loadable module support. The result of this is a call to "make modules" which aborts with the following error message: The present kernel configuration has modules disabled. Type 'make config' and enable loadable module support. Then build a kernel with module support enabled. A possible fix for this bug would be to change the above mentioned grep invocation to read: grep -E ^[^\#]*CONFIG_MODULES[^_] $(CONFIG_FILE) With this change applied I could successfully create a kernel package. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii binutils 2.22-7.1 ii build-essential 11.5 ii debianutils 4.3.2 ii file 5.11-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9 ii make 3.81-8.2 ii module-init-tools 9-2 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2 ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.3 Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii cpio 2.11-8 Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: pn btrfs-tools <none> ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 pn docbook-utils <none> ii e2fsprogs 1.42.5-1 pn grub | grub2 <none> ii initramfs-tools [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.109 pn jfsutils <none> ii libncurses5-dev [libncurses-dev] 5.9-10 pn linux-source | kernel-source <none> pn mcelog <none> pn oprofile <none> pn pcmciautils <none> ii ppp 2.4.5-5.1+b1 ii procps 1:3.3.3-2 pn quota <none> pn reiserfsprogs <none> pn squashfs-tools <none> ii udev 175-7 pn xfsprogs <none> pn xmlto <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
