On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:19 AM Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
wrote:

> Am Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:32:21 -0700
> schrieb <jon@solid-run.com>:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> I have seen that before. It happens in buildchroot when using
> qemu-arm-static binfmt magic. Something in that chain seems to cause
> problems for very long argument lists.
> In my case it was a "make clean" and i removed the files from outside
> the buildchroot. But since it now happened again it is probably
> something worth looking into.
>
> Henning
>

Oh interesting.  I wonder if this has something to do with the binfmt
support in CentOS vs Debian.  I will look into it and report back.

Jon