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Kernel 6.3 custom compile error

gb flag

I've been compiling my own kernels for and have hit an error with kernel 6.3:

$ make LSMOD=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/modprobed.db localmodconfig
$ make deb-pkg -j4 LOCALVERSION=-custom

 UPD     include/config/kernel.release
  GEN     debian
error: creating source package requires git repository
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.package:40: check-git] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
warning: Not a git repository. Use --no-index to compare two paths outside a working tree
usage: git diff --no-index [<options>] <path> <path>

Diff output format options
    -p, --patch           generate patch
    -s, --no-patch        suppress diff output
    -u                    generate patch
    -U, --unified[=<n>]   generate diffs with <n> lines context
    -W, --function-context
                          generate diffs with <n> lines context
    --raw                 generate the diff in raw format
    --patch-with-raw      synonym for '-p --raw'
    --patch-with-stat     synonym for '-p --stat'
    --numstat             machine friendly --stat
    --shortstat           output only the last line of --stat
    -X, --dirstat[=<param1,param2>...]
                          output the distribution of relative amount of changes for each sub-directory
    --cumulative          synonym for --dirstat=cumulative
    --dirstat-by-file[=<param1,param2>...]
                          synonym for --dirstat=files,param1,param2...
    --check               warn if changes introduce conflict markers or whitespace errors
    --summary             condensed summary such as creations, renames and mode changes
    --name-only           show only names of changed files
    --name-status         show only names and status of changed files
    --stat[=<width>[,<name-width>[,<count>]]]
                          generate diffstat
    --stat-width <width>  generate diffstat with a given width
    --stat-name-width <width>
                          generate diffstat with a given name width
    --stat-graph-width <width>
                          generate diffstat with a given graph width
    --stat-count <count>  generate diffstat with limited lines
    --compact-summary     generate compact summary in diffstat
    --binary              output a binary diff that can be applied
    --full-index          show full pre- and post-image object names on the "index" lines
    --color[=<when>]      show colored diff
    --ws-error-highlight <kind>
                          highlight whitespace errors in the 'context', 'old' or 'new' lines in the diff
    -z                    do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators in --raw or --numstat
    --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display object names
    --src-prefix <prefix>
                          show the given source prefix instead of "a/"
    --dst-prefix <prefix>
                          show the given destination prefix instead of "b/"
    --line-prefix <prefix>
                          prepend an additional prefix to every line of output
    --no-prefix           do not show any source or destination prefix
    --inter-hunk-context <n>
                          show context between diff hunks up to the specified number of lines
    --output-indicator-new <char>
                          specify the character to indicate a new line instead of '+'
    --output-indicator-old <char>
                          specify the character to indicate an old line instead of '-'
    --output-indicator-context <char>
                          specify the character to indicate a context instead of ' '

Diff rename options
    -B, --break-rewrites[=<n>[/<m>]]
                          break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create
    -M, --find-renames[=<n>]
                          detect renames
    -D, --irreversible-delete
                          omit the preimage for deletes
    -C, --find-copies[=<n>]
                          detect copies
    --find-copies-harder  use unmodified files as source to find copies
    --no-renames          disable rename detection
    --rename-empty        use empty blobs as rename source
    --follow              continue listing the history of a file beyond renames
    -l <n>                prevent rename/copy detection if the number of rename/copy targets exceeds given limit

Diff algorithm options
    --minimal             produce the smallest possible diff
    -w, --ignore-all-space
                          ignore whitespace when comparing lines
    -b, --ignore-space-change
                          ignore changes in amount of whitespace
    --ignore-space-at-eol
                          ignore changes in whitespace at EOL
    --ignore-cr-at-eol    ignore carrier-return at the end of line
    --ignore-blank-lines  ignore changes whose lines are all blank
    -I, --ignore-matching-lines <regex>
                          ignore changes whose all lines match <regex>
    --indent-heuristic    heuristic to shift diff hunk boundaries for easy reading
    --patience            generate diff using the "patience diff" algorithm
    --histogram           generate diff using the "histogram diff" algorithm
    --diff-algorithm <algorithm>
                          choose a diff algorithm
    --anchored <text>     generate diff using the "anchored diff" algorithm
    --word-diff[=<mode>]  show word diff, using <mode> to delimit changed words
    --word-diff-regex <regex>
                          use <regex> to decide what a word is
    --color-words[=<regex>]
                          equivalent to --word-diff=color --word-diff-regex=<regex>
    --color-moved[=<mode>]
                          moved lines of code are colored differently
    --color-moved-ws <mode>
                          how white spaces are ignored in --color-moved

Other diff options
    --relative[=<prefix>]
                          when run from subdir, exclude changes outside and show relative paths
    -a, --text            treat all files as text
    -R                    swap two inputs, reverse the diff
    --exit-code           exit with 1 if there were differences, 0 otherwise
    --quiet               disable all output of the program
    --ext-diff            allow an external diff helper to be executed
    --textconv            run external text conversion filters when comparing binary files
    --ignore-submodules[=<when>]
                          ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation
    --submodule[=<format>]
                          specify how differences in submodules are shown
    --ita-invisible-in-index
                          hide 'git add -N' entries from the index
    --ita-visible-in-index
                          treat 'git add -N' entries as real in the index
    -S <string>           look for differences that change the number of occurrences of the specified string
    -G <regex>            look for differences that change the number of occurrences of the specified regex
    --pickaxe-all         show all changes in the changeset with -S or -G
    --pickaxe-regex       treat <string> in -S as extended POSIX regular expression
    -O <file>             control the order in which files appear in the output
    --rotate-to <path>    show the change in the specified path first
    --skip-to <path>      skip the output to the specified path
    --find-object <object-id>
                          look for differences that change the number of occurrences of the specified object
    --diff-filter [(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]
                          select files by diff type
    --output <file>       output to a specific file

make: *** [Makefile:1656: deb-pkg] Error 2

Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? Thanks.

Ubuntu 23.04

David avatar
cn flag
Not the kernel 23.04 comes with why are you trying to do this?
Doug Smythies avatar
gn flag
Try `make bindeb-pkg -j4 LOCALVERSION=-custom`. But please tell us more about what you doing and why. see also [here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/718381/how-to-compile-and-install-custom-mainline-kernel/718662#718662).
vaskark avatar
gb flag
Hey again. Why am I doing this? No crucial reason. Everything works fine on my laptop. I've been building my own custom kernels specific to my hardware for a few years and I've never received this kind of an error before. These are the commands I've always used to make the deb pkgs for install. Just surprised by a 'git' error of all things.
vaskark avatar
gb flag
Okay. Tried the 'bindeb-pkg' command above and it worked. Not sure why it changed but oh well. Many thanks :)
Doug Smythies avatar
gn flag
Glad you got it to work. It was years ago I had to change to `bindeb-pkg`. However, while looking into your question, I tried `deb-pkg` and it worked!!!
vaskark avatar
gb flag
Thanks. It is a little weird about deb-pkg, isn’t it? I’ve used that command for years - even yesterday when I recompiled 6.2.12 just to see and it worked as always. Weird.
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nr flag

March 16, 2023 linux kernel git commit 05e96e96a315fa49faca4da2aedd1761a218b616

kbuild: use git-archive for source package creation Commit 5c3d1d0 ("kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git") added a new tool, scripts/list-gitignored. My intention was to create source packages without cleaning the source tree, without relying on git.

Linus strongly objected to it, and suggested using 'git archive' instead. [1] [2] [3]

This commit goes in that direction - Remove scripts/list-gitignored.c and rewrites Makefiles and scripts to use 'git archive' for building Debian and RPM source packages. It also makes 'make perf-tar*-src-pkg' use 'git archive' again.

Going forward, building source packages is only possible in a git-managed tree. Building binary packages does not require git.

So according to the above commit, just use "make bindeb-pkg" or if you want to build src pkg using "make deb-pkg" like before (pre 6.3), then you have to git pull the kernel source tree.

vaskark avatar
gb flag
Awesome. Thanks so much for your explanation. Kudos.
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kr flag

The same for me, for unknown reasons, the command 'make deb-pkg' won't work (it worked fo years without problems), the suggested command 'make bindeb-pkg' worked. This only for the 6.3 kernel release.

Artur Meinild avatar
vn flag
How does this differ from the answer by @gniuk?
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