[DRBD-user] Error while compiling on SLES10-ppc

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Nov 10 18:57:39 CET 2008

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:31:19PM +0100, Philipp Reisner wrote:
> On Monday 10 November 2008 12:38:47 Klaus Jagemann wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I need to install DRBD on several SLES10-ppc machines. Therefore I wanted
> > to build RPMs the way it is described here:
> >
> > http://www.drbd.org/docs/install/
> >
> > All requirements are met (I think so) but a 'make rpm' fails, telling me
> > this:
> >
> > Macro %kernelversion has empty body
> > Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.xxxxxx (%prep)
> >
> > As I am rather unexperienced in doing this stuff and because of the fact
> > that, regarding the error, auntie google is as clueless as I am, I would
> > appreciate any hint to solve this problem.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >  
> > Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> > Klaus Jagemann
> >  
> 
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> I do not know why, but recently we have noticed rising interest in
> DRBD for PPC. I can not help you with that build issue from the
> top of my head, but I can tell you that the module you would get
> if the build would run through would be not be functional...
> 
> We just recently fixed an endianess issue in the code, you have
> to wait for 8.0.14 or 8.2.7, which will be released RSN.
> 
> PS: Does a simple "make" work in the drbd source dir?

if not, you probably need to install
"kernel-source" and "kernel-syms" packages.

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