On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:20, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:27, Bogo Mipps wrote: > > * getfilevar <VARIABLE> <CONFIGFILE> > > * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. > > * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux > > sources. > > * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that > > * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find > > .config. > > > > Why would the .config that's in the directory not be usable? I just did > > the make oldconfig && make as you suggested - which ran without errors > > ... > > Bah! try > cd /usr/src/linux > make menuconfig > exit out of that and save in the process. Try the emerge again. Stupid > software ;)
No, still the same error. However I thought I'd try the following: export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 - and then try the emerge svgalib again. This time it emerged no problem. Not very satisfactory, other than achieving the emerge. Why/how am I using KBUILD_OUTPUT? (see above) Mystery to me. Now I guess I get this every time an ebuild uses /usr/portage/eclass/linux-info.class - and it looks from bugzilla that more and more are moving over to it. And why only me? Only clue I have is from gentoo forum where someone found a miscompiled coreutils [/bin/echo] was producing same error as I got above. He worked through the bash file and found that was the problem. I recompiled coreutils in case (I'd had a bad memory stick earlier this year) but that didn't help. Maybe eventually when everything on my box is upgraded/recompiled I'll get back to "normal". Thanks. Bogo -- Sent via KMail 1.8.1, & o/s Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
