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From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:12:30
Message-Id: flm71n$8q1$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage by Grant
1 On 2008-01-04, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >> > > * nvidia missing in FILESDIR
3 >> > >
4 >> > > Can anyone tell what happened?
5 >> > >
6 >> > You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/
7 >> > subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you
8 >> > need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same place
9 >> > you copied the old ebuild.
10 >>
11 >> That was it, thank you.
12 >
13 > Actually, it compiles and installs when /usr/src/linux points to
14 > 2.6.20-hardened-r6 but fails to compile when it points to
15 > linux-2.6.23-hardened-r4. The error instructs me as follows:
16 >
17 > ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
18 > include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
19 > Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
20 >
21 > Which I did with the same results. Does anyone know how to fix this?
22
23 ISTR that "make prepare" isn't sufficient. You have to do a
24 "make". IIRC, you can kill it once it starts compiling "real
25 code".
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