Guoqing Jiang reports that openSUSE cannot compile the kernel rpm due
to "BuildRequires: elfutils-libelf-devel" added by commit 8818039f959b
("kbuild: add ability to make source rpm buildable using koji").
The relevant package name in openSUSE is libelf-devel.
Add it an alternative package.
BTW, if it is impossible to solve the build requirement, the final
resort would be:
$ make RPMOPTS=--nodeps rpm-pkg
This passes --nodeps to the rpmbuild command so it will not verify
build dependencies. This is useful to test rpm builds on non-rpm
system. On Debian/Ubuntu, for example, you can install rpmbuild by
'apt-get install rpm'.
NOTE1:
Likewise, it is possible to bypass the build dependency check for
debian package builds:
$ make DPKG_FLAGS=-d deb-pkg
NOTE2:
The 'or' operator is supported since RPM 4.13. So, old distros such
as CentOS 7 will break. I suggest installing newer rpmbuild in such
cases.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/ee227d24-9c94-bfa3-166a-4ee6b5dfea09@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u
Fixes: 8818039f959b ("kbuild: add ability to make source rpm buildable using koji")
Reported-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/package/mkspec | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
index dda00a948a01..adab28fa7f89 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkspec
+++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ sed -e '/^DEL/d' -e 's/^\t*//' <<EOF
URL: https://www.kernel.org
$S Source: kernel-$__KERNELRELEASE.tar.gz
Provides: $PROVIDES
-$S BuildRequires: bc binutils bison dwarves elfutils-libelf-devel flex
+$S BuildRequires: bc binutils bison dwarves
+$S BuildRequires: (elfutils-libelf-devel or libelf-devel) flex
$S BuildRequires: gcc make openssl openssl-devel perl python3 rsync
# $UTS_MACHINE as a fallback of _arch in case
--
2.34.1
