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On 1/24/06, Alex Bennee <alex@××××××.com> wrote: |
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<snip> |
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> * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so |
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> that |
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> * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might |
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> find .config. |
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> However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via |
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> uname -r: |
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> malory / # ls -l "/lib/modules/`uname -r`" |
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> total 212 |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 15 17:16 build |
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> -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 15 17:16 source |
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> -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 |
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The problem here is that this only points to the running kernel. You |
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really need a way to specify what kernel to build against. |
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> There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src |
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> so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to |
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> determine the root of the kernel tree for building kernel modules? |
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Just a guess, haven't tried this myself, but does this work? |
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KBUILD_OUTPUT=/home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 emerge sys-fs/fuse |
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-Richard |
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