[CentOS] Error building kernel for CentOS 5.0

Mark Hull-Richter

mhullrich at gmail.com
Sat May 19 00:17:59 UTC 2007


I thought I had all the tools I needed for this, but it seems
something is missing.  When I build the 2.6.18-8.1.3 kernel from
source, I get this error:

extracting debug info from
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.trace-root/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.el5.trace-x86_64/scripts/conmakehash
extracting debug info from
/var/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.trace-root/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5.trace/vmlinux
cpio: kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.x86_64/<built-in>: No such file or directory
187199 blocks
+ /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77254: line 62: /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths: No such
file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77254 (%install)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77254 (%install)

Sure enough, neither of the two check- files exist, but I'm not sure
which package I'm missing that would contain them.  I thought I had
selected all the right development packafges during install and with
yum, and google has not been my friend on this one.

yum grouplist
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Group Process
Setting up repositories
Installed Groups:
   Office/Productivity
   Development Libraries
   Editors
   System Tools
   GNOME Software Development
   Text-based Internet
   GNOME Desktop Environment
   Dialup Networking Support
   Authoring and Publishing
   Network Servers
   Legacy Software Development
   Java
   Legacy Software Support
   X Window System
   Graphics
   Web Server
   Windows File Server
   Printing Support
   Mail Server
   Server Configuration Tools
   Sound and Video
   Administration Tools
   Yum Utilities
   Graphical Internet
Available Groups:
   Engineering and Scientific
   MySQL Database
   X Software Development
   Virtualization
   Legacy Network Server
   DNS Name Server
   FTP Server
   Games and Entertainment
   XFCE-4.4
   Java Development
   Emacs
   Ruby
   KDE Software Development
   KDE (K Desktop Environment)
   PostgreSQL Database
   News Server
   Development Tools
   FreeNX and NX
Done

(Funny thing - I tried to do 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"',
which I did shortly after initial installation, and it tells me that
they're alreayd installed - someone else had a question about this
earlier today, too.)

I also tried:

yum list | grep rpm and got this:
redhat-rpm-config.noarch                 8.0.45-17.el5.centos   installed
rpm.x86_64                               4.4.2-37.el5           installed
rpm-build.x86_64                         4.4.2-37.el5           installed
rpm-devel.i386                           4.4.2-37.el5           installed
rpm-devel.x86_64                         4.4.2-37.el5           installed
rpm-libs.i386                            4.4.2-37.el5           installed
rpm-libs.x86_64                          4.4.2-37.el5           installed
rpm-python.x86_64                        4.4.2-37.el5           installed
rpmforge-release.x86_64                  0.3.6-1.el5.rf         installed

Since there's no current wiki on building kernels for 5.0 (or if it is
current, I have already been through all those steps and yum tells me
there's nothing to do), can someone point me at what I don't have so I
can get it and get on with it?

Thanks.

-- 
Mark Hull-Richter
DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com)
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