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

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Sep 30 02:14:15 PDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:03:26AM -0700, Vadim Lomovtsev wrote:
> [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) $(boot)/$@

It might be worth fixing the other architectures that just set KBUILD_IMAGE
to the filename too. Then you could remove the bodge from
scripts/package/builddeb that tries to support both formats.

Will



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