Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 2009-12-09 14:16, Joe Bill wrote:
> Just to fix a few showstoppers when building DRBD under SLES 11...
>
> 1)
>
> At http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-emb/s-build-rpm.html
>
> every occurence of ...
>
> `rpm -E _sourcedir`
>
> should read instead ...
>
> `rpm -E %_sourcedir`
Thanks, will be fixed.
> 2)
>
> Then, several occurences of '/etc/SuSErelease', in files
> 'configure' and 'configure.ac', whereas '/etc/SuSErelease' doesn't exist in my SLES 11 installation but '/etc/SuSE-release' does.
Fixed in git.
> 3)
>
> Finally, when running the following line ...
> rpmbuild -bb drbd-km.spec
>
> ... you may get the following error message:
>
> "error: Failed build dependencies:
> kernel-syms = 2.6.27.39-0.3-default is needed by drbd-km-8.3.6-12.i586"
>
> ... although, as hard as you look at it, you already have "kernel-syms v2.6.27.39-0.3-default" installed.
>
> The problem is to those major and minor version numbers there is an additional number (build?, revision ?) that occasionally finds it's way in the version number.
>
> So eventually, if you're kernel was recently patched, you might have to change the line in file drbd-km.spec ...
>
> 'BuildRequires: gcc, kernel-syms = %{kernelversion}'
>
> with
>
> 'BuildRequires: gcc, kernel-syms = v'
>
> ... 'v' being the exact version of the kernel-syms package installed, which may be found using yast.
Yes, patches for automating this are accepted. :)
Cheers,
Florian
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