rpmbuild of rawhide kernel fails.

[Paul Bolle]

On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 14:57 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 11:54 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> >> I'm trying to build a rawhide kernel
> >> (kernel-3.20.0-0.rc0.git7.1.fc23.src.rpm)
> >>
> >> with rpmbuild -bb --target x86_64 kernel.spec
> >> and I'm getting the following error
> >>
> >> + '[' '!' -f /data/src/rawhide/build/SOURCES/patch-3.19-git7.xz ']'
> >> + case "$patch" in
> >> + unxz
> >> + patch -p1 -F1 -s
> >> symbolic link target '../../../../../arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S' is invalid
> >> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.EsUbKg (%prep)
> >>
> >>
> >> RPM build errors:
> >>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.EsUbKg (%prep)
> >>
> >> All the output is at http://ur1.ca/jqwao
> >>
> >> Any ideas why this is happening?
> >
> > This reminds me of a similar rpmbuild failure I ran into two months ago,
> > also involving symlinks: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/22/177 . My
> > current theory is that there's something odd going on at the
> > intersection of rpmbuild, cp -l, and/or patch.
> >
> > But, of course, replaying part of your rpmbuild output didn't trigger
> > this problem on a f20 system:
> >     $ cp -al vanilla-3.19 vanilla-3.19-git7
> >     $ cd vanilla-3.19-git7/
> >     $ cat [...]/patch-3.19-git7.xz | unxz | patch -p1 -F1 -s
> >     $ file tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/memcmp_64.S
> >     tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/memcmp_64.S: symbolic link to `../../../../../arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S'
> >
> > Still all very puzzling...
> 
> In rawhide, patch-2.7.3 stopped supporting relative symlinks.  Then
> patch-2.7.4 went back to supporting symlinks.  So make sure you have a
> patch package installed that isn't 2.7.3.

The pastebin of the rpmbuild output suggests Steve built on a f21 box.
(Note that I ran into that similar issue on a f21 box too.) Did I
misread the rpmbuild output?


Paul Bolle