On 1/24/06, Alex Bennee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > * 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. > > 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
The problem here is that this only points to the running kernel. You really need a way to specify what kernel to build against. > 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? Just a guess, haven't tried this myself, but does this work? KBUILD_OUTPUT=/home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 emerge sys-fs/fuse -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
