I've hit this as well.  Some relatively recent commit - 2.7.0 is fine - has broken this process.  I tried to figure out what and gave up, I am now bisecting.  The specific issue seems to be that %kversion is not being read out, but I'm not sure of the why.

- Patrick Farrell
From: HPDD-discuss [hpdd-discuss-bounces@lists.01.org] on behalf of Sean Caron [scaron@umich.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 3:01 PM
To: Stephen Champion; Sean Caron
Cc: hpdd-discuss@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] Performing "make rpms" on current Git pull fails with "error: line 144: Version required: Requires: kernel ="

Sorry for the confusion; that was a typo in my e-mail trying to copy and paste from my log; every time I've run that ./configure I did actually get the leading slash in there:

[build@lustre-mgs lustre-release]$ history | grep configure
   70  ./configure --with-linux=/home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-3.10.0_229.4.2.el7.centos_lustre.x86_64/
   72  ./configure --with-linux=/home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-3.10.0_229.4.2.el7.centos_lustre.x86_64/
   97  ./configure --with-linux=/home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-3.10.0_229.4.2.el7.centos_lustre.x86_64/
  122  history | grep configure
[build@lustre-mgs lustre-release]$ 

I've tried a few "make clean" and retry attempts and I reach the same end; the make completes with no errors, but "make rpms" fails with that line 144 error.

I looked at the page Richard sent me and I don't see any material changes from section 30.2.2 on in the administrator's guide; there's a few extra packages in there that aren't mentioned in my printing of the Lustre 2.x operations manual ... but I never hit any errors previous in the build process; the kernel builds fine ... just trying to build the Lustre RPMs fails ... final step ... I feel like anything I would have made a hash of so grievously would have caused fatal errors earlier in the process, no?

Best,

Sean


On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Stephen Champion <schamp@sgi.com> wrote:
On 6/5/2015 12:41 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
I've been following the build directions explicitly from section 30.2.2 on only correcting for differences between CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 ... everything built clean until now, as far as I can tell. At what point in the build process would I have gone awry for that to happen?

At configure.
Right at momentary freeze as my mail client was sending, I saw the problem.


./configure --with-linux=home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-3.10.0_229.4.2.el7.centos_lustre.x86_64/

the leading slash is missing.