Packaging fails upon compiling 16.04 HWE kernel

Short summary:

Packaging script looks in wrong path.

Detailed error summary:

To compile the kernel, I used the compilation instructions from here, which included the steps:

1. Checkout git sources from:

   
   
   

   git clone git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/xenial -b hwe
   




2. Modify the configs using:

   
   
   

   fakeroot debian/rules clean
   
   fakeroot debian/rules editconfigs
   

   
   
   

   where I changed only one option, the equivalent to CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y, listed under Device drivers → CMA. As it is suggested, I added a custom name for the new kernel by setting it in menuconfig, which ultimately results in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-cma" in the config file.

   
   
   

   I changed it for the x64 and x64lowlatency configs (I also tried to change it for i386 and armhf, also, but this made no difference).




3. Build it with:

   
   
   

   CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 fakeroot debian/rules binary-headers binary-generic binary-perarch
   

The output of the error is:

...[a seemingly succesful compile and lots of INSTALL]...
#
# Build module blacklists:
#  - blacklist all watchdog drivers (LP:1432837)
#
...[more output]...

ls: cannot access '/home/user/kernel/xenial/debian/linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic/lib/modules/4.15.0-65-generic/kernel/drivers/watchdog/': No such file or directory
#
# Remove all modules not in the inclusion list.
#
...[more output]...
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /home/user/kernel/xenial/debian/linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic/lib/modules/4.15.0-65-generic: No such file or directory
depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/home/user/kernel/xenial/debian/linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic/lib/modules/4.15.0-65-generic/kernel': No such file or directory
debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk:89: recipe for target 'install-generic' failed
make: *** [install-generic] Error 1

The message from ls is indeed correct, as this claimed directory does not exist:

/home/user/kernel/xenial/debian/linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic/lib/modules/4.15.0-65-generic/kernel/drivers/watchdog/

Only this directory with the -cma addition exists:

/home/user/kernel/xenial/debian/linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic/lib/modules/4.15.0-65-generic-cma/kernel/drivers/watchdog/

but it is not searched for.

I localized the output of blacklist all watchdog drivers to come from:

./xenial/debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk

But I fail in identifying the parts in the Makefile, which path variable is wrong and how I would fix it. This surpasses my Linux knowledge.

Can anyone help me?

It seems I did partially solve the problem.

The instructions contain a note that I must have overlooked and that contradicts instructions that describe to do it otherwise:

NOTE: do not attempt to use CONFIG_LOCALVERSION as this will break
the build.

Now at least the abovementioned problem is solved. However, the build is not yet successful and fails at a later stage. I will open another question how to continue with custom kernel creation without having to build/compile everything from scratch over and over again.

However, in this question the way following the instructions by the letter (edit the changelog file) did not work. I'm curious what I will find...