Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. __ please don't Cc me, but send to list -- I'm subscribed