Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

[John Covici]

On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 02:51:49 -0400,
Ashley Dixon wrote:
>
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> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:30:45AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> > This is just a total guess, but I can suppose that lspci uses it to convey
> > which kernel modules are being used by each PCI device.
>
> Clarification: kmod is used specifically with the `-k` switch of lspci:
>
>         $ ash-euses -o pciutils:kmod
>         sys-apps/pciutils:kmod - Enable sys-apps/kmod support for the -k switch
>         in lspci command
>
> This causes the LIBKMOD variable to be passed to the Makefile [1, 2]:
>
>         pemake() {
>             emake \
>                 [...]
>                 LIBKMOD=$(multilib_native_usex kmod) \
>                 [...]
>                 "$@"
>         }
>
> Anyway, with regards to your problem: if you're just installing your system now,
> then you're probably getting this error  because  `/lib/modules`  doesn't  exist
> inside your chroot.  This path is hardcoded into pciutils  [3];  this  has  been
> modified by some vendors of the package, but not Gentoo [4].  You needn't  worry
> unless you're still getting this error  outside  of  your  chroot,  once  you've
> completed the installation. Just focus on building a kernel for now.
>
> [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/pciutils/pciutils-3.7.0.ebuild#n81
> [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/multilib-build.eclass/#lbAE
> [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git/tree/ls-kernel.c#n134
> [4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/286c836b3f1421553c103758537929e596256e65#diff-0a685886728285db8aa0594d87cb29b4

I always get this error, but the flag indicating which driver is being
used still works, so I have not paid too much attention to this one.
I do have a running system with /lib/modules and the error still
occurrs.

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