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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:51:14
Message-Id: 49bf44f10801041439i1c732440v44037b7fdc24dcba@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage by Grant Edwards
1 > >> > > * nvidia missing in FILESDIR
2 > >> > >
3 > >> > > Can anyone tell what happened?
4 > >> > >
5 > >> > You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/
6 > >> > subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you
7 > >> > need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same place
8 > >> > you copied the old ebuild.
9 > >>
10 > >> That was it, thank you.
11 > >
12 > > Actually, it compiles and installs when /usr/src/linux points to
13 > > 2.6.20-hardened-r6 but fails to compile when it points to
14 > > linux-2.6.23-hardened-r4. The error instructs me as follows:
15 > >
16 > > ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
17 > > include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
18 > > Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
19 > >
20 > > Which I did with the same results. Does anyone know how to fix this?
21 >
22 > ISTR that "make prepare" isn't sufficient. You have to do a
23 > "make". IIRC, you can kill it once it starts compiling "real
24 > code".
25
26 I can't keep up with the acronyms but I did a full make and I still
27 get the same error. Should I be booted into the same kernel that
28 /usr/src/linux points to when compiling nvidia-modules?
29
30 - Grant
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