[PATCH v2] arm64: make rpm failed due to incorrect path to Image.gz

Vadim Lomovtsev Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com
Fri Sep 30 00:03:26 PDT 2016


[Adding Will Deacon]
Sorry, should do this at the very beginning. (

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 07:46:07AM -0700, Vadim Lomovtsev wrote:
> The "make rpm" and "make rpm-pkg" commands for arm64 platform
> are broken due to rpmbuild couldn't find Image.gz file at
> default location (which is kernel src root):
>  cp: cannot stat 'Image.gz': No such file or directory
>  error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ocFBmP (%install)
> 
> While the correct path to arm64 kernel image file
> is "arch/arm64/boot/Image.gz".
> 
> The exact file name (Image.gz) is stored at KBUILD_IMAGE variable
> and read by rpmbuild with "make image_name" command at
> install phase after kernel build is complete.
> 
> Accordingly to Michal's Marek comment the KBUILD_IMAGE
> variable has to be set to point to actual file.
> 
> Since the KBUILD_IMAGE variable is used in general cases of
> build we need to prevent other build types breakage by changing it.
> 
> The solution is to add to arch/arm64/Makefie extra target "image_name"
> with dependency "KBUILD_IMAGE:=<proper path to Image.gz file>".
> Thus it will allow to set proper path to Image.gz file only for
> the "image_name" build target and this exact value will be picked up
> while rpm build install phase.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vadim Lomovtsev <Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Makefile | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> index ab51aed..09926d3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ all:	$(KBUILD_IMAGE) $(KBUILD_DTBS)
>  
>  boot := arch/arm64/boot
>  
> +image_name: KBUILD_IMAGE :=$(boot)/$(KBUILD_IMAGE)
> +
>  Image: vmlinux
>  	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 



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