Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:01 +0000, Alex Bennee wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Portage doesn't build the modules in /usr/src, but it uses
> the /usr/src/linux symlink to determine the kernel for which you wish to
> build the modules; which may not be the same as returned by uname -r.

And that is a bug, in my opinion.
-- 
Hilsen Harald.

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