Re: building custom kernel fails

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2018-04-19 09:47, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:40 AM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com
> <mailto:jan.kiszka@siemens.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2018-04-19 09:32, jon@solid-run.com <mailto:jon@solid-run.com> wrote:
>     > I am now building a custom debian package from our kernel sources, the
>     > kernel compile goes fine.  The deb-pkg is failing because the
>     number of
>     > files passed to xarg is too long.
>     >
>     > Error message is.
>     >
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | Using default distribution of
>     > 'unstable' in the changelog
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | Install lsb-release or set
>     > $KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST explicitly
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | /usr/bin/xargs: md5sum:
>     Argument list
>     > too long
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | scripts/package/Makefile:90: recipe
>     > for target 'deb-pkg' failed
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | make[1]: *** [deb-pkg] Error 126
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | Makefile:1347: recipe for target
>     > 'deb-pkg' failed
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | make: *** [deb-pkg] Error 2
>     > 2018-04-19 07:11:17 - INFO     - | WARNING: exit code 2 from a shell
>     > command.
>     >
>     > looks like on large kernel builds the file lists will need to be
>     broken up.
> 
>     Where exactly is this argument list passed? What exactly is your setup
>     (host, target distro, kernel version etc.)?
> 
>     BTW, you can find a working custom kernel build here e.g.:
>     https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse-images/tree/master/recipes-kernel/linux
>     There is an ARM64 version of that as well, just waiting for cross-build
>     support to be available.
> 
>     Jan
> 
> 
>  Yes I have used your recipe as a reference.  It is a 4.9.y lts kernel
> with the NXP BSP merged for our hardware. https://www.solid-run.com
> 
> I am attempting to use the default make deb-pkg in that LTS kernel.  I
> am running this in a kas-isar container on a CentOS 7 host.  My guess is
> ulimit my possibly be getting in the way.  I will do a minimal kernel
> config build and then move up from there.

Are you using our recipes-kernel/linux/linux-custom.inc or your own rules?

Jan

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