On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 14:57 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. The pastebin of the rpmbuild output suggests Steve built on a f21 box. (Note that I ran into that similar issue on a f21 box too.) Did I misread the rpmbuild output? Paul Bolle _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
