Re: errors running make-kpkg on 2.4.14 kernel (unstable)
Daniel Farnsworth Teichert <danielt@ee.byu.edu> writes:
> I'm running Debian unstable with the 2.4.12 kernel currently,
> and have been trying to make a custom kernel package of the
> 2.4.14 kernel to use to upgrade (and for installation elsewhere).
> I used the make-kpkg command provided by the Debian package
> kernel-package to make the kernel I'm using now, and all went
> well--but now (that was several weeks, and upgrades, ago) when
> I try to run make-kpkg clean or make-kpkg --revision=...
> kernel_image, I get a bunch of errors like this (and no kernel):
>
> unknown Debian architecture linux, you must specify GNU system
> type, too at /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture line 193.
>
> (I wrapped it in the middle, for your viewing enjoyment).
>
> Any ideas? I consider myself a semi-newbie, so I may be missing
> something silly here. I took a look at dpkg-architecture, and
> tried running it with the -t and/or -a options with various
> combinations of i386, linux, i386-linux, etc.; but either that's
> not the right avenue, or I missed the right combo.
If 'dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH' doesn't show:
i386
then something's screwy, I would think. Normally, the arch is "i386"
(not "linux"), and the gnu system type is "linux".
You can try the argument "--arch i386" with make-kpkg, but that
shouldn't be necessary.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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