lin_tape on SLES 11 does not build

[RJNeilly]

Hi,

The latest lin_tape driver (1.27) does not build on SLES 11. It appears that the developers expect there to be a debug kernel installed as the following output from "rpmbuild --rebuild lin_tape-1.27...." shows:

+ make KERNEL=2.6.27.29-0.1-default PROC=x86_64 driver
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.29-0.1-default/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/lin_tape-1.27.0 PWD=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/lin_tape-1.27.0 clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.29-0.1-obj/x86_64/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.27.29-0.1 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.29-0.1-obj/x86_64/default/. clean
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.29-0.1-obj/x86_64/default'
mkdir bldtmp
make KERNEL=2.6.27.29-0.1-debug compileclean lin_tape.ko
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/lin_tape-1.27.0'
export PWD
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.29-0.1-debug/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/lin_tape-1.27.0 PWD=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/lin_tape-1.27.0 modules
make: Entering an unknown directory
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.27.29-0.1-debug/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Leaving an unknown directory
make[1]: *** [lin_tape.ko] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/lin_tape-1.27.0'
make: *** [bldtmp/lin_tape-2.6.27.29-0.1-debug.ko] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79641 (%build)


RPM build errors:
user iot does not exist - using root
user iot does not exist - using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79641 (%build)

It should be using the directory "2.6.27.29-0.1-default" which it found and used earlier in the build process. But at the highlighted points it uses the -debug directory. But nothing exists in that directory. It looks to me like the devs hardcoded the -debug directory into the source rpm...

Now I'm no programmer/developer so I could be way off base. No matter because the real point is that the lin_tape driver is not building on SLES 11 and I am rather dead in the water until this can be fixed.

So anyone know how to get this resolved?

Thanks,

Ron

PS uname -a produces : "2.6.27.29-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

[RJNeilly]

Fixed it. My server had almost all of the build environment needed - it was missing just one thing: kernel symbols. Installed those and the build ran just fine. Sigh. Sorry for the false alarm.

Ron