Hi, I'm tracking the kernel by hand (following the git tree and doing some hacking of my own). However whenever I try and emerge a ebuild that involves a kernel module it usually fails to work out the correct kernel:
* Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Found sources for kernel version: * 2.6.15-git12 * getfilevar requires 2 variables, with the second a valid file. * getfilevar <VARIABLE> <CONFIGFILE> * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources. * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find .config. !!! ERROR: sys-fs/fuse-2.5.0 failed. !!! Function linux-info_pkg_setup, Line 534, Exitcode 1 !!! Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via uname -r: malory / # ls -l "/lib/modules/`uname -r`" total 212 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 15 17:16 build -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 15 17:16 source -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to determine the root of the kernel tree for building kernel modules? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Blessed be those who initiate lively discussions with the hopelessly mute, for they shall be know as Dentists. dis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
