From: Paulo Edgar Castro on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/761#note_446301275 > GitLab > > CKI Gitlab <https://gitlab.com/redhat-patchlab> commented > <https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel- ark/-/merge_requests/761#note_445670762>: > > > Brian Masney bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx> commented > via email: > > |On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:03:48PM -0000, GitLab Bridge on behalf of > pecastro wrote: > From: pecastro on gitlab.com > > `make prepare` > fails when trying to build external kernel modules. > Details in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1882854 and > previous > related bugs. > > I'm not very happy with the final solution to this, > ( the copy of the > tools dir ) but I ran out of steam chasing the > dependencies required to > make this work and at some point I started > doubting it was even possible > given that `make` seems to restart the > process rebuilding even some of > the binaries shipped. So it looks > like that'll add about 1.4MB to the kernel-devel package. I think > we're likely to run into this issue with other include files down the > road.| ||Is there a size requirement that should be honored? Surely developer/debug time involved into making this work and maintaining it going forward should be considered. || ||I agree as I did above that the solution ( copying all of tools ) is a bit blunt but ... || |||1.4MB in this day and age seems peanuts compared with the potential time costs involved in the long run. | > |Maybe an alternative approach would be to make the kernel-devel > package depend on the kernel-headers package and then setup symlinks > to the header directories.| The kernel headers package includes "header files that specify the interface between the Linux kernel and userspace" Whereas the devel package "provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules against the kernel package" Furthermore, most of the headers required for `make prepare` don't seem part of the headers package and it would feel like an unnecessary mixing of responsibilities ( in my opinion ) to make *devel* depend on *headers* and go down a path of symlink kung fu ? Maybe @Justin has a view on this ? In any case, one or the other package would be getting a bit fatter ... || _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
