[CentOS] recompiling kernel results in error: .../linux-2.6.18.i686/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory

Tue May 22 00:05:50 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On 5/21/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have done a bit of a search regarding this issue.  Turns out the
> same problem was reported as early as Feb 2005 on a Fedora list.  So
> this is not something new, nor CentOS specific. Bad news is that I
> have yet to find an answer for this.  The only thing I saw in the
> search was the same manual editing of .config as we already did as a
> temporary solution.
>
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-05/0405.html
>
> I am still trying to figure out why rpmbuild -bp messes up the first
> line of .config.

I confirmed that exactly the same thing happens on my FC5 and FC6.
This stuff must have been around for quite some time.  I had never
used rpmbuild for compiling kernels, so did not notice until I saw the
OP's posting yesterday.  Maybe I should stop writing to this mailing
list because this is not a CentOS issue.  Will probably file a bug
with RedHat's bugzilla if no one has already done it.  I suppose not
many people use rpmbuild AND modify the kernel options.

Akemi