[I resisted looking into the flood of info you included in this message. But this part could turn out to be interesting.] On ma, 2015-07-06 at 21:37 +0200, Espen Carlsen wrote: > This is the how BUILDROOT looks after rpmbuild -bi kernel-4.1.0.spec > on an Ubuntu system, notice that on Ubuntu, there are already a > 'build' and 'source' symlink before the ln -sf commands are issued, > CentOS however doesn't have those links on the same step. > user@build-ubuntu:/srv/user/rpmbuild$ rpmbuild -bi SPECS/kernel-4.1.0.spec That is outside the realm of "make rpm". I assume kernel-4.1.0.spec was a copy, somehow made, of kernel.spec as was created by "make rpm". Does it matter, for the issue you ran into, whether "make rpm" or "rpmbuild -bb SPECS/kernel.spec" is involved? > user@build-ubuntu:/srv/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.1.0-1.x86_64/lib/modules/4.1.0$ ls -gG > total 64 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 35 Jul 6 18:56 build -> /srv/user/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-4.1.0 > [...] > lrwxrwxrwx 1 35 Jul 6 19:00 source -> /srv/user/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-4.1.0 These two links are, I think, generated in this snippet from the main Makefile: _modinst_: @rm -rf $(MODLIB)/kernel @rm -f $(MODLIB)/source @mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel @ln -s `cd $(srctree) && /bin/pwd` $(MODLIB)/source @if [ ! $(objtree) -ef $(MODLIB)/build ]; then \ rm -f $(MODLIB)/build ; \ ln -s $(CURDIR) $(MODLIB)/build ; \ fi @cp -f $(objtree)/modules.order $(MODLIB)/ @cp -f $(objtree)/modules.builtin $(MODLIB)/ $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst I wonder why you don't see similar links when building on CentOS. I saw similar links in rpm's BUILDROOT when building on Fedora 22. Thanks, Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html