On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 04:19:42PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:46:37AM -0400, Brian Masney wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:44:14PM -0000, GitLab Bridge on behalf of dzickusrh wrote:
> > > From: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > For CKI and its cross-compile environment, it can not cross
> > > compile userspace tools. Instead we will native compiles them.
> > >
> > > To allow this split, the kernel.spec needs to support only
> > > building userspace stuff and not the kernel itself.
> > >
> > > However the userspace tools need some vars defined. This
> > > patch creates a new function and sets up those vars.
> > >
> > > Also very useful for debugging userspace tools and skipping
> > > the hour long kernel build times (like LTO).
> > >
> > > To use this effectively, one would use
> > > --without_up
> > > --without_debug
> > > --without_zfcpdump
> >
> > These should be --without= instead of --without_.
> >
> > I remember now why I never submitted this patch to ARK. I couldn't get
> > the userspace RPMs for ELN to build and it's likely something wrong with
> > the way that I'm building the kernel. Here's how I am building an ELN
> > kernel:
> >
> > DIST='.eln' make dist-srpm IS_FEDORA=0
> > rpmbuild --define 'dist .eln' --rebuild --with=bpftool \
> > --with=tools --with=perf --with=selftests --without=up \
> > --without=kabidw_base --without=debug \
> > --without=ipaclones --without=debuginfo \
> > --without=cross_headers --without=pae \
> > redhat/rpm/SRPMS/*.src.rpm
> >
> > That won't actually build any RPMs. We are using similar flags for
> > the RHEL 8 kernel.
> >
> > If I try to build it with just the three --without flags that you have
> > above like so, then it gives a different error:
> >
> > $ DIST='.eln' make dist-srpm IS_FEDORA=0
> > $ rpmbuild --define 'dist .eln' --rebuild --without=up \
> > --without=debug --without=zfcpdump \
> > redhat/rpm/SRPMS/*.src.rpm
> > RPM build errors:
> > Empty %files file /home/masneyb/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-5.10.0-0.rc1.57.test/debugfiles.list
>
> Ah. Because you are compiling on a Fedora machine, the %fedora macro is
> still defined. Add "--define 'fedora %{nil}'" and it should work now.
OK, that makes sense. I tested this on Fedora 32 and in a CentOS 8
container and it works in both situations.
Acked-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx>
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