Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

[Xavier Parizet]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:48:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey
<peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> My box is trying to upgrade nvidia-drivers to version 180.51, but I get
> this:
>
>>>> Compiling source
> in
>
/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.51/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2
> ...
>  * Preparing nvidia module
> make -j3 -s HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1
> SYSSRC=skins/default/usr/src/linux
SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r1/build 
> HOST_CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module
> [...]
> *** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***
>
> make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1
>  *
>  * ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.51 failed.
>  * Call stack:
>  *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
>  *             environment, line 3792:  Called linux-mod_src_compile
>  *             environment, line 2799:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *               eval "emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)"
> CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}-
> LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)"
 
>
> ${BUILD_FIXES}                             ${BUILD_PARAMS}
 
>
> ${BUILD_TARGETS} " || die "Unable to emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)"
> CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES}
> ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}";
>
> Can anyone see what the problem is? I did the upgrade of X to 1.5 a few
> weeks ago, and the /usr/src/linux link is correctly pointing to the
current

I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make paremeter which is set to
skins/default/usr/src/linux, which seems to be invalid.
Maybe you can check to your environment for the variable KBUILD_OUTPUT if i
remember correctly.

HTH

> kernel.
>
> This first happened yesterday, but I waited to see if it was still the
same
>
> after the next daily sync. It is. I can't see a bugzilla entry for it;
> perhaps I should raise one.

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