Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-29 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 28/11/12 18:52, Rick Stevens wrote: I reiterate: 1. Install the kernel source RPM. 2. Navigate to your ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory. 3. Do rpmbuild -bp --target=x86_64 kernel.spec or rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel.spec depending on your

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, William Brown will...@firstyear.id.auwrote: On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:06 -0500, Brian West wrote: On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:44 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know how it's done. I agree it's not intuitive but check and

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2012 05:07 PM, JD wrote: The main point is that the build takes too darned long. On my unicore cpu, it takes almost 2 days. Building bazillions of useless modules is a great waste of time and machine. If you want to change the set of

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/28/2012 09:46 AM, Bryn M. Reeves issued this missive: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2012 05:07 PM, JD wrote: The main point is that the build takes too darned long. On my unicore cpu, it takes almost 2 days. Building bazillions of useless modules is a great waste

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:44 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does, I would

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/28/2012 12:43 PM, JD wrote: I do know about these rpmbuild options, which, when turned off (--without xx) does shorten the build time. But it is not enough. Building bazillions of useless (with regards to the user's HW platform) driver, enabling features by default which the user might not

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 13:10 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: What would be nice would be something like the traditional ./configure that didn't just examine the build environment, but probed the hardware and included the drivers you needed and only those. There would also be (I hope) a way to

building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-27 Thread JD
Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know how it's done. The current rpmbuild of the kernel builds bazillions of drivers, most of which are very

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-27 Thread Brian West
On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know how it's done. The current rpmbuild of the kernel builds bazillions of

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-27 Thread William Brown
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:06 -0500, Brian West wrote: On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know how

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-27 Thread Brian West
On 11/27/2012 09:19 PM, William Brown wrote: On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:06 -0500, Brian West wrote: On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does,

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/27/2012 06:06 PM, Brian West issued this missive: On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Alan, The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way to go through the entire config options before proceeding to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know how it's done.