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

[Yu Chen]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
Got it! thanks.