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2016-05-16scripts/package/Makefile: rpmbuild add support of RPMOPTSSrinivas Pandruvada
After commit 21a59991ce0c ("scripts/package/Makefile: rpmbuild is needed for rpm targets"), it is no longer possible to specify RPMOPTS. For example, we can no longer able to control _topdir using the following make command. make RPMOPTS="--define '_topdir /home/xyz/workspace/'" binrpm-pkg Fixes: 21a59991ce0c ("scripts/package/Makefile: rpmbuild is needed for rpm targets") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+ Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2015-11-24package Makefile: fix perf-tar targets when outdir is setRiku Voipio
building with $srctree != $objtree, perf-tar-* targets fail to read the MANIFEST file and add the PERF-VERSION-FILE needed by out-of-tree builds. The build errors and an incorrect tar is created: $ make O=build-x86 perf-targz-src-pkg TAR cat: ../tools/perf/MANIFEST: No such file or directory tar: perf-4.1.0-rc8/PERF-VERSION-FILE: Cannot stat: No such file or dir.. tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Kbuild sets objtree to "." and srctree to ".." The command to output MANIFEST becomes: $(cd ..; echo $(cat ../tools/perf/MANIFEST)) Without MANIFEST, the entire kernel source tree is added to the perf source tarball. The *correct* fix is to keep the cd and remove srctree from cat command line since MANIFEST has wildcards that fail to expand working directory isn't srctree. Second, PERF-VERSION-FILE gets not added, because in-tree build path is hardcoded to Makefile: util/PERF-VERSION-GEN ../../$(perf-tar)/ 2>/dev/null) The PERF-VERSION-GEN needs to be run from tools/perf directory, and the output directory needs to be changed from relative to to absolute. This can be achieved using the $(CURDIR) variable. Also remove the error redirect to /dev/null which hid the error. Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2015-09-04deb-pkg: add source packageRiku Voipio
Make deb-pkg build both source and binary package like make rpm-pkg does. For people who only need binary kernel package, there is now bindeb-pkg target, same target also used to build the .deb files if built from the source package using dpkg-buildpackage. Generated source package will build the same kernel .config than what was available for make deb-pkg. The name of the source package can be set with KDEB_SOURCENAME enviroment variable. The source package is useful for GPL compliance, or for feeding to a automated debian package builder. Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: maximilian attems <maks@stro.at> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2015-09-04package/Makefile: move source tar creation to a functionRiku Voipio
Split source tarball creation from rpm-pkg target so it can be used from deb-pkg target as well. As added bonus, we can now pretty print TAR the name of tarball created in quiet mode This patch prepares the groundwork for deb-pkg source package adding bit. Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2015-06-15scripts/package/Makefile: rpmbuild is needed for rpm targetsJim Davis
Before rpm release 4.1, in 2002, either the rpm command or the rpmbuild command could be used in the rpm-pkg or binrpm-pkg targets, and the Makefile chose the rpm command if the rpmbuild command wasn't found. After release 4.1, however, the rpm command could no longer be used in place of the rpmbuild command. As the rpmbuild command is not installed by default, this can lead to failures with the rpm-pkg and binrpm-pkg targets: rpm --define "_builddir ." --target \ x86_64 -bb ./binkernel.spec rpm --target: unknown option scripts/package/Makefile:60: recipe for target 'binrpm-pkg' failed Change the Makefile to use rpmbuild unconditionally to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-06-10kbuild: trivial - remove trailing empty linesMasahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
2013-11-07perf tools: Fix version when building out of treeDavid Ahern
When building perf out of tree: $ make perf-tar-src-pkg $ tar -xf perf-<ver>.tar -C /tmp $ cd /tmp/perf<ver> $ make -C tools/perf you get this warning message: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `kernelversion'. Stop. Fix it by saving the perf version in the tar file and using that for the out of tree builds. v2: removed short form request and fixed up version string from usual output. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383753335-25782-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-16package: Makefile: unbreak binrpm-pkg targetLuiz Capitulino
Commit 6501320311664e11ad5489fedb17ea1f817c2617 dropped the rpm spec as a prerequisite for the binrpm-pkg target but forgot to update $< usage, which causes the rule to break. This commit fixes that by replacing $< with the spec name. Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-18rpm-pkg: Remove pointless set -e statementsMichal Marek
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-18rpm-pkg: Always regenerate the specfileMichal Marek
The *pkg targets are always run, so it makes no sense to cache the generated specfile. This also fixes build errors when the specfile becomes out of date, without the Makefile noticing it: $ make rpm works $ echo yadadada >localversion-test $ make rpm fails, because kernel.spec assumes the old kernel release string Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-18rpm-pkg: Do not write to the parent directoryMichal Marek
Now that we only package explicitly listed files to the tarball, there is no need to abuse the parent directory. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-18rpm-pkg: Do not package the whole source directoryMichal Marek
The source tree can contain lots of uninteresting data like tag or cscope files, packaging which slows down make rpm needlessly. It can also break the build, if the tree contains an unrelated file named *.spec. The downside of this change is that new subdirectories have to be added to the KBUILD_ALLDIRS variable in the top-level Makefile. The upside is that the behavior is more predictable. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-08scripts/package/Makefile: compare objtree with srctree instead of test ↵Bin Wang
KBUILD_OUTPUT KBUILD_OUTPUT is always empty here, so it is useless to test it. But while use O=.., objtree and srctree will be different. I compare them instead. Signed-off-by: Bin Wang <wbin00@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-10-29scripts/package/Makefile: Fix typo: an deb -> a debPaul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-06-24package: Makefile: fix perf target bugmatt mooney
Specify --git-dir when building perf targets to allow out-of-tree builds using O=<build-dir>. The shell command in `git archive' had to be modified to allow proper file name expansion of the files listed in MANIFEST. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-05-24rpm-pkg: Fix when current directory is a symlinkMichal Marek
The better fix would be to stop using the parent directory (principle of least surprise), but as long as we use it, use it consistently. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-05-04Replace '-' in kernel version with '_'Arun Sharma
Removing the '-' results in hard to read filenames such as: kernel-2.6.35.2000042g76e4caf-28.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.35.2_000042_g76e4caf-28.x86_64.rpm is easier to read. Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-03-09kbuild: Add make tarxz-pkg build optionZdenek Kaspar
Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-08-02Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile tools/perf/util/hist.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts and update to latest upstream. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-21kbuild: Fix make rpmMichal Marek
make rpm was broken by commit 0915512: make clean set -e; cd ..; ln -sf /usr/src/iwlwifi-2.6 kernel-2.6.35rc4wl /bin/sh /usr/src/iwlwifi-2.6/scripts/setlocalversion --scm-only > /usr/src/iwlwifi-2.6/.scmversion cat: .scmversion: input file is output file make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1 Reported-and-tested-by: "Zheng, Jiajia" <jiajia.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-07-05Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc4' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18kbuild: Clean up and speed up the localversion logicMichal Marek
Now that we run scripts/setlocalversion during every build, it makes sense to move all the localversion logic there. This cleans up the toplevel Makefile and also makes sure that the script is called only once in 'make prepare' (previously, it would be called every time due to a variable expansion in an ifneq statement). No user-visible change is intended, unless one runs the setlocalversion script directly. Reported-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Nico Schottelius <nico-linuxsetlocalversion@schottelius.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-06-05perf tools: Make target to generate self contained source tarballArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Useful for when people want to try some version of the perf tools and don't wants to download the kernel tarball. Here is a session using this new target: [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make help | grep -i perf perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar source tarball perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.gz source tarball perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 source tarball [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg TAR [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295731 May 31 11:18 perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# tar xf perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# cd perf-2.6.35-rc1 [root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# ls arch HEAD include lib tools [root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# cd tools/perf [root@emilia perf]# make -j9 2>&1 | tail CC arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.o CC util/probe-finder.o CC util/newt.o CC util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o CC scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o CC perf.o CC builtin-help.o AR libperf.a LINK perf rm .perf.dev.null [root@emilia perf]# ./perf record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (~11457 samples) ] [root@emilia perf]# ./perf report | head -12 # Events: 6K cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... .................. ...... # 4.73% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] format_decode 4.49% perf libc-2.12.so [.] _IO_file_underflow_internal 4.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mwait_idle 3.29% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] vsnprintf 2.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_local 2.35% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] apic_timer_interrupt 1.86% sirq-timer/5 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_busiest_group [root@emilia perf]# Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100528185357.GA28009@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2009-12-12scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if availableJonathan Nieder
Running "make deb-pkg" requires setting KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD or becoming root oneself or it errors out. Unless already running as root or KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD is already set, use fakeroot as a good default. With this patch applied, you can run "make oldconfig deb-pkg" as an ordinary user to build a binary package for an updated kernel tree and it should just work. fakeroot is too zealous by default in treating files as owned by root. Its wrapped stat() sets st_uid and st_gid to 0 for all files, which causes Git to go on a wild goose chase if CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is set, checking if any file's content has changed along with its stat information. Avoid this by telling fakeroot to use the actual owner and group for preexisting files, by passing it the -u option. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variableJonathan Nieder
Let the deb-pkg target acquire (fake) root privileges before running commands that need them. Without such privileges, deb-pkg errors out because chown fails. The new KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable, if defined, is used as a command to run other commands with possibly fake elevated privileges. Since this is not needed for the tar-pkg and rpm-pkg targets, it is only used by deb-pkg. If it is not defined, the behavior is as before, and the user will have to rerun make as root. In other words, as a shortcut, instead of running 'make oldconfig && make && fakeroot -u make deb-pkg', one can use the single command 'make oldconfig deb-pkg KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD="fakeroot -u"'. Suggested-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-10-11kbuild: fix the binrpm-pkg target to work with KBUILD_OUTPUT setFrans Pop
The binrpm-pkg target (binary RPM only) fails when called with KBUILD_OUTPUT set. This patch makes it work. For the rpm-pkg target (source + binary RPM), building with KBUILD_OUTPUT set is not possible and also not needed as the actual build is done in a temporary directory anyway, so check that KBUILD_OUTPUT is not set in that case to avoid later errors. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-03-07kbuild: fix 'make rpm' when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y and using SCM treeJosh Hunt
Running 'make rpm' fails when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y and using a kernel source tree under SCM. This is due to KERNELRELEASE being different when the initial make is run and when make is run from rpmbuild. mkspec creates kernel.spec using KERNELRELEASE: <mkspec> echo "%files" echo '%defattr (-, root, root)' echo "%dir /lib/modules" echo "/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE" echo "/lib/firmware" echo "/boot/*" echo "" </mkspec> When CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y scripts/setlocalversion is called and grabs any additional version info from SCM. Next, the srctree is tarred up and SCM information is excluded. rpmbuild reruns make and in the process generates a new include/config/kernel.release and thus a new KERNELRELEASE. However this time the SCM information is gone so KERNELRELEASE no longer has the additional version information. When "make modules_install" runs, it uses the new KERNELRELEASE value to determine where to install the modules. This conflicts with where the spec file assumes they are going because of the mis-matching KERNELRELEASE versions. <snippet> + INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root + make -j16 modules_install INSTALL crypto/aead.ko INSTALL crypto/cbc.ko INSTALL crypto/chainiv.ko INSTALL crypto/crc32c.ko INSTALL crypto/crypto_algapi.ko INSTALL crypto/crypto_blkcipher.ko INSTALL crypto/crypto_hash.ko INSTALL crypto/cryptomgr.ko INSTALL crypto/ecb.ko INSTALL crypto/eseqiv.ko INSTALL crypto/krng.ko INSTALL crypto/md5.ko INSTALL crypto/pcbc.ko INSTALL crypto/rng.ko INSTALL drivers/block/cciss.ko INSTALL drivers/hid/hid-dummy.ko INSTALL drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.ko INSTALL drivers/scsi/libiscsi.ko INSTALL drivers/scsi/libiscsi_tcp.ko INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.ko INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko INSTALL fs/lockd/lockd.ko INSTALL fs/nfs/nfs.ko INSTALL fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko INSTALL lib/libcrc32c.ko INSTALL net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko DEPMOD 2.6.29-rc4-tip + cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422 + cp System.map /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/System.map-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422 + cp .config /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/config-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422 + cp vmlinux vmlinux.orig + bzip2 -9 vmlinux + mv vmlinux.bz2 /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/boot/vmlinux-2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422.bz2 + mv vmlinux.orig vmlinux + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress Processing files: kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-2 error: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/lib/modules/2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422 RPM build errors: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.29rc4tip01479g5d85422-root/lib/modules/2.6.29-rc4-tip-01479-g5d85422 make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1 make: *** [rpm] Error 2 </snippet> I have tested this patch on git -tip, Linus' git tree, and the kernel.org tar files, both with and without CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y. Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <josh@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> ----
2008-12-05kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORERobert P. J. Day
Given that there is no usage of a TAR_IGNORE variable remove it Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03scripts/package: allow custom options to rpmJeremy Kerr
Add a RPMOPTS make variable to allow arbitrary options to be passed to rpm during 'make rpm-pkg'. For example: make RPMOPTS="--define '_topdir /home/jk/rpm'" rpm-pkg Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28Kbuild: Clarify the rpm-related make packaging targetsRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-08kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCESam Ravnborg
.PHONY: does not take patterns so use FORCE to achive same effect. Thanks to "Paul D. Smith" <psmith@gnu.org> for noticing this. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-06kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behaviorPaul Smith
The kbuild system takes advantage of an incorrect behavior in GNU make. Once this behavior is fixed, all files in the kernel rebuild every time, even if nothing has changed. This patch ensures kbuild works with both the incorrect and correct behaviors of GNU make. For more details on the incorrect behavior, see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2006-03/msg00003.html Changes in this patch: - Keep all targets that are to be marked .PHONY in a variable, PHONY. - Add .PHONY: $(PHONY) to mark them properly. - Remove any $(PHONY) files from the $? list when determining whether targets are up-to-date or not. Signed-off-by: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-01kbuild: tar-pkg with out-out-tree buildingJan-Benedict Glaw
Fix out-of-tree builds for the tar-pkg targets When I wrote the buildtar script, I didn't even think about out-of-tree builds because I didn't use these back then. This patch throughoutly uses ${objtree} instead of `pwd`. Also, the kernel version is no longer manually built. Instead, it will properly use $KERNELRELEASE . Installing modules is only done if CONFIG_MODULES is set. Signed-off-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-21[PATCH] kbuild: make help binrpm-pkg fixCoywolf Qi Hunt
This fixes kbuild make help binrpm-pkg missing `''. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14kbuild: Fix bug in make deb-pkg when using seperate source and output ↵Sam Ravnborg
directories From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> When running "make O=something deb-pkg", I get a failure that claims I haven't configured my kernel (I have). Running it a second time tells me to run "make mrproper" (include/linux/version.h got built on the first run) Original patch from: From: Ajay Patel <patela@gmail.com> With modifications from: Signed-off-By: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] kbuild: restrain output of "make help" to 80 columnsYum Rayan
This patch fixes the output of "make help" to fit in a 80 column screen. Please push upstream as part of your other patches. Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <yum.rayan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] kbuild: create tarballsJan-Benedict Glaw
It adds tarball packaging, which I prefer for distribution. Also one of the two blanks after @echo is removed. One seems to be enough :) Signed-off-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!