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
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