Re: Error when building the kernel on top of 4.14-rc1 for target firmware_install?

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:20:19AM +0800, Yu Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> kernel compile failed after running # make rpm
> 
> + INSTALL_FW_PATH=/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.14.0_rc1+-22.x86_64/lib/firmware/4.14.0-rc1+
> + make INSTALL_FW_PATH=/root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.14.0_rc1+-22.x86_64/lib/firmware/4.14.0-rc1+
> firmware_install
> make[2]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add '+' to parent
> make rule.
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'firmware_install'.  Stop.
> 
> I have to hack the script to compile through:
> diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
> index bb43f15..cb9c1b3 100755
> --- a/scripts/package/mkspec
> +++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ echo 'mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE"
> 
>  echo 'INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT make %{?_smp_mflags}
> KBUILD_SRC= mod-fw= modules_install'
>  echo 'INSTALL_FW_PATH=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT'"/lib/firmware/$KERNELRELEASE"
> -echo 'make INSTALL_FW_PATH=$INSTALL_FW_PATH' firmware_install
> +echo 'make INSTALL_FW_PATH=$INSTALL_FW_PATH'
>  echo "%ifarch ia64"
> 
> Not sure if this is a regression but several version ago it works well.

See the maling list for fixes for this already :)

thanks,

greg k-h