rawhide report: 20060629 changes(kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6doesn't boot)

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom London" <selinux at gmail.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: rawhide report: 20060629 
changes(kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6doesn't boot)


> On 6/29/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday 29 June 2006 15:50, Jim Bevier wrote:
>> > Well switching over to the "new spec file" causes all the 3rd party 
>> > module
>> > build scripts to fail. The say "kernel configuration not valid - run 
>> > 'make
>> > prepare' in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-x86_64 to update it." 
>> > Are
>> > you going back to the old way or are going to have to fix all the 
>> > builds?
>> > I vote for the old way! Using "_FC6" is fine with me. There errors so
>> > far are for mvidia, vmware, ntfs, and spca5xx modules.
>>
>> What are they checking to figure this out?
>>
>> --
>> Jesse Keating
>> Release Engineer: Fedora
>>
> Could this be coming from source/Makefile:
> # If .config is newer than include/config/auto.conf, someone tinkered
> # with it and forgot to run make oldconfig.
> # if auto.conf.cmd is missing then we are probably in a cleaned tree so
> # we execute the config step to be sure to catch updated Kconfig files
> include/config/auto.conf: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) include/config/auto.conf.cmd
> ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
>        $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile silentoldconfig
> else
>        $(error kernel configuration not valid - run 'make prepare' in
> $(srctree) to update it)
> endif
>
> tom
> -- 
> Tom London
>

It looks like this is where the message is coming from.  For example, 
spca5xx executes "make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build 
SUBDIRS=/root/spca5xx-20060501 CC=cc modules" to build the module.  The 
error is coming from the /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-x86_64/Makefile. 
Where do I go from here to fix this?  I am not a Makefile wizard :-(.

Jim