[WBEL-users] Building a kernel - help!

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:27 +0100, Vic wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> I've been updating machines with kernels straight from ftp.redhat.com.
> 
> Last night, I used an X86_64 machine to build a kernel for itself. It took
> a little patching of the spec file ("redhat"->"whitebox" in a couple of
> locations), but basically went off just fine.
> 
> This morning, I'm trying to use the same box to build a kernel for a
> Celery 533 (not really grunty enough to do its own builds!). It fails.
> 
> The command I'm using is
> 
> rpmbuild -ba --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec
> 
> And it fails. From the output (just before a whole slew of errors) :
> 
> + cp configs/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config .config
> + make -s nonint_oldconfig
> .config:64: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_PC
> 
> (N.B. I've also used "--target=i686" - same result)
> 
> Diffing configs/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config and .config show they are very
> different - it's setting up the .config file to match the host machine,
> not the target!
> 
> Am I doing something monumentally stupid? Have I missed something somewhere?
> 

Use:

setarch i386 rpmbuild -ba --target i686 /rest/of/stuff
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