[OpenAFS-devel] RH 7.1 spec file: archlist

[Rudolph T Maceyko]

I'm hacking on the spec file a bit this week, and plan to submit some
patches.  (More on those later...)

In the meantime, I'm trying to deal with the fact that building from
the source RPM takes ages, and happened to notice that it *tries* to
build a module for all of the architectures specified in $archlist, but
it actually builds the same module for each of them!

This is from the openafs-kernel-1.1.1 RPM (straight from openafs.org):

$ pwd
/usr/vice/etc/modload
$ md5sum *.o | sort
1c7d991de1682fb242bd014ff15df96e  libafs-2.4.2-2-athlon.o
1c7d991de1682fb242bd014ff15df96e  libafs-2.4.2-2-i386.o
1c7d991de1682fb242bd014ff15df96e  libafs-2.4.2-2-i586.o
1c7d991de1682fb242bd014ff15df96e  libafs-2.4.2-2-i686.o
7cc3eaaf13f12cda8fbdb0237e3544ee  libafs-2.4.3-12-athlon.o
7cc3eaaf13f12cda8fbdb0237e3544ee  libafs-2.4.3-12-i386.o
7cc3eaaf13f12cda8fbdb0237e3544ee  libafs-2.4.3-12-i586.o
7cc3eaaf13f12cda8fbdb0237e3544ee  libafs-2.4.3-12-i686.o
a85f91c3669333a27df52d4cca16aa03  libafs-2.4.2-2-athlon.mp.o
a85f91c3669333a27df52d4cca16aa03  libafs-2.4.2-2-i386.mp.o
a85f91c3669333a27df52d4cca16aa03  libafs-2.4.2-2-i586.mp.o
a85f91c3669333a27df52d4cca16aa03  libafs-2.4.2-2-i686.mp.o
ed438c2fec7bda25c3e9db0001327417  libafs-2.4.3-12-athlon.mp.o
ed438c2fec7bda25c3e9db0001327417  libafs-2.4.3-12-i386.mp.o
ed438c2fec7bda25c3e9db0001327417  libafs-2.4.3-12-i586.mp.o
ed438c2fec7bda25c3e9db0001327417  libafs-2.4.3-12-i686.mp.o

Of 16 total files there are really only 4 distinct files.  Shouldn't
they be different?  The same thing happens when I build from the source
RPM.

Note that the only thing that differs from one compilation to the next
is the name of the output module:

> 	for arch in $archlist ; do
> 
> 	    PrintRedhatKernelFix $arch $mp src/config/redhat-fix.h
> 
> 	    make only_libafs LOCAL_SMP_DEF=-DREDHAT_FIX \
> 		LINUX_MODULE_NAME="-$arch" MPS=$mp
> 	done

What's the right thing to do here?  Certainly not to build the same
modules four times over...  :-)  If there are no architecture-specific
optimizations, then just build them all for i386...

-Rudy

PS: 

$ rpm -qa | egrep -i 'kernel|gcc|egcs|redhat-release' | sort
gcc-2.96-85
gcc-c++-2.96-85
gcc-g77-2.96-85
kernel-2.4.3-12
kernel-doc-2.4.3-12
kernel-headers-2.4.3-12
kernel-source-2.4.3-12
openafs-kernel-1.1.1-24.1
openafs-kernel-source-1.1.1-24.1
redhat-release-7.1-1

I had the kernel-headers & kernel-source installed for 2.4.2-2, but
each build already takes long enough so I've left that out until I'm
done making changes to the spec file...