Hi, Gentoo, Hope someone can shed some light on continuing emerge failures for zfs since gnetoo-sources-4.4.39 and zfs-0.6.5.8. I was able to install that version of zfs with that kernel last November on one of my machines, but have been unable to upgrade zfs since then, or to install it in any newer kernel, or even to re-install the same version on the same kernel.
Emerge fails consistently in the configuration phase for spl with the following snippet in the log: checking kernel source directory... /usr/src/linux checking kernel build directory... /lib/modules/4.12.5-gentoo/build checking kernel source version... Not found configure: error: *** Cannot find UTS_RELEASE definition. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1/work/spl-0.7.1/config.log * ERROR: sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1::gentoo failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 115: Called src_configure * environment, line 3831: Called autotools-utils_src_configure * environment, line 614: Called econf '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/spl-0.7.1' '--bindir=/bin' '--sbindir=/sbin' '--with-config=all' '--with-linux=/usr/src/linux' '--with-linux-obj=/lib/modules/4.12.5-gentoo/build' '--disable-debug' * phase-helpers.sh, line 665: Called __helpers_die 'econf failed' * isolated-functions.sh, line 117: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "$@" Googling around for the "Cannot find UTS_RELEASE" complaint reveals that a few people have encountered this problem over the years. It appeared in those cases to be attributable to the user running the configuration script not having sufficient authority to read ./include/generated/utsrelease.h in the kernel tree. As far as I can tell, I think I ought to have sufficient permission to read that file. I've gone so far as to chmod 777 the entire kernel tree to ensure sufficient access. No luck with that "solution": same error. I've tried strace on emerge to see if I could figure out what it's doing when it's looking for UTS_RELEASE, but no luck with that either. Nothing that I can find in Bugzilla, either, although that could be due to inexperience in using it. Any idea what could be going on, or how I could go about debugging it more effectively? Thanks, John Blinka
