Build the RPMs

Onload User Guide (UG1586)
Document ID
UG1586
Release Date
2023-07-31
Revision
1.2 English
Note: Refer to Build Dependencies for details of build dependencies.

As root:

rpmbuild --rebuild enterpriseonload-<version>.src.rpm

Or as a non-root user:

It is advised to use _topdir to ensure that RPMs are built into a directory to which the user has permissions. The directory structure must pre-exist for the rpmbuild command to succeed.

mkdir -p /tmp//myrpm/{SOURCES,BUILD,RPMS,SRPMS}
rpmbuild --define "_topdir /tmp/myrpm" \
         --rebuild enterpriseonload-<version>.src.rpm
Note: On some non-standard kernels the rpmbuild might fail because of build dependencies. In this event retry, adding the --nodeps option to the command line.

Building the source RPM will produce two binary RPM files which can be found in one of the following directories:

  • /usr/src/*/RPMS/
  • _topdir/RPMS (when built by a non-root user)
  • /tmp/myrpm/RPMS/x86_64/ (when _topdir was defined in the rpmbuild command line).

For example, the user-space components:

/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/enterpriseonload-<version>.x86_64.rpm

and the kernel components:

/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/enterpriseonload-kmod-2.6.18-92.el5-<version>.x86_64.rpm