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Message-ID: <20231006165815.GA3359308@dev-arch.thelio-3990X>
Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2023 09:58:15 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rebased] kbuild: rpm-pkg: Fix build with non-default
 MODLIB

On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 05:07:28PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> The default MODLIB value is composed of two variables and the hardcoded
> string '/lib/modules/'.
> 
> MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
> 
> Defining this middle part as a variable was rejected on the basis that
> users can pass the whole MODLIB to make, such as
> 
> make 'MODLIB=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/usr/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)'
> 
> However, this middle part of MODLIB is independently hardcoded by
> rpm-pkg, and when the user alters MODLIB this is not reflected when
> building the package.
> 
> Given that $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) is overridden during the rpm package build
> it is likely going to be empty. Then MODLIB can be passed to the rpm
> package, and used in place of the whole
> /usr/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE) part.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>

This appears to work for me.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>

> ---
>  scripts/package/kernel.spec | 8 ++++----
>  scripts/package/mkspec      | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> index 3eee0143e0c5..15f49c5077db 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> +++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ cp $(%{make} %{makeflags} -s image_name) %{buildroot}/boot/vmlinuz-%{KERNELRELEA
>  %{make} %{makeflags} INSTALL_HDR_PATH=%{buildroot}/usr headers_install
>  cp System.map %{buildroot}/boot/System.map-%{KERNELRELEASE}
>  cp .config %{buildroot}/boot/config-%{KERNELRELEASE}
> -ln -fns /usr/src/kernels/%{KERNELRELEASE} %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/build
> +ln -fns /usr/src/kernels/%{KERNELRELEASE} %{buildroot}%{MODLIB}/build
>  %if %{with_devel}
>  %{make} %{makeflags} run-command KBUILD_RUN_COMMAND='${srctree}/scripts/package/install-extmod-build %{buildroot}/usr/src/kernels/%{KERNELRELEASE}'
>  %endif
> @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ fi
>  
>  %files
>  %defattr (-, root, root)
> -/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}
> -%exclude /lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/build
> +%{MODLIB}
> +%exclude %{MODLIB}/build
>  /boot/*
>  
>  %files headers
> @@ -110,5 +110,5 @@ fi
>  %files devel
>  %defattr (-, root, root)
>  /usr/src/kernels/%{KERNELRELEASE}
> -/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/build
> +%{MODLIB}/build
>  %endif
> diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
> index d41608efb747..d41b2e5304ac 100755
> --- a/scripts/package/mkspec
> +++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ fi
>  cat<<EOF
>  %define ARCH ${ARCH}
>  %define KERNELRELEASE ${KERNELRELEASE}
> +%define MODLIB ${MODLIB}
>  %define pkg_release $("${srctree}/init/build-version")
>  EOF
>  
> -- 
> 2.42.0
>