On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 11:54 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >> I'm trying to build a rawhide kernel >> (kernel-3.20.0-0.rc0.git7.1.fc23.src.rpm) >> >> with rpmbuild -bb --target x86_64 kernel.spec >> and I'm getting the following error >> >> + '[' '!' -f /data/src/rawhide/build/SOURCES/patch-3.19-git7.xz ']' >> + case "$patch" in >> + unxz >> + patch -p1 -F1 -s >> symbolic link target '../../../../../arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S' is invalid >> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.EsUbKg (%prep) >> >> >> RPM build errors: >> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.EsUbKg (%prep) >> >> All the output is at http://ur1.ca/jqwao >> >> Any ideas why this is happening? > > This reminds me of a similar rpmbuild failure I ran into two months ago, > also involving symlinks: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/22/177 . My > current theory is that there's something odd going on at the > intersection of rpmbuild, cp -l, and/or patch. > > But, of course, replaying part of your rpmbuild output didn't trigger > this problem on a f20 system: > $ cp -al vanilla-3.19 vanilla-3.19-git7 > $ cd vanilla-3.19-git7/ > $ cat [...]/patch-3.19-git7.xz | unxz | patch -p1 -F1 -s > $ file tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/memcmp_64.S > tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/memcmp_64.S: symbolic link to `../../../../../arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S' > > Still all very puzzling... In rawhide, patch-2.7.3 stopped supporting relative symlinks. Then patch-2.7.4 went back to supporting symlinks. So make sure you have a patch package installed that isn't 2.7.3. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
