[CentOS] Adding patch to Centos Kernel - early build failure

[Dunc]

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Dunc <centos at duncb.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Dunc wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Guys
>>>
>>> I'm trying to add the patch mentioned in this thread to the plain Centos
>>> kernel
>>>
>>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/062845.html
>>>
>>> I've followed the directions on the wiki for building a custom kernel, but
>>> after applying all the patches it fails with:
>>>
>>> make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 4
>>> make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2
>>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)
>>>
>>> RPM build errors:
>>>   Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)
>>>       
>> Just to follow up on this, the patch meant nonint_oldconfig was expecting
>> some more config options in the .config.
>>
>> I had to add:
>>
>> CONFIG_PATA_ISAPNP=n
>> CONFIG_PATA_LEGACY=n
>> CONFIG_PATA_QDI=n
>> CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB=n
>>
>> to the base and PAE configs, and then the build continued. No idea if
>> putting n was the right option, but I'm sure i'll find out when I run the
>> kernel..
>>     
>
> Hmm, that is odd.  If you copy the config file from configs/
> directory, make nonint_oldconfig should run without any needing for
> edit.
>   
You would think that, but the configs in the config directory do not 
contain those options, and it wouldn't build without them.

either way the build has just failed with:

"make: *** [drivers] Error 2 + exit 1"

any ideas?

Dunc