[gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find configuration info about the kernel. However, there is the running kernel with its

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Markos Chandras
On 21 February 2013 18:49, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source tree, many ebuilds inherit linux-info to find

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/21/2013 06:12 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: Hi everyone, This issue has come up in a few bugs so I want to bounce it off the community. When building packages that need a configured kernel source tree, many

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building against /usr/src/linux and linux-info.eclass

2013-02-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: there is the kernel source tree (/usr/src/linux if it exists and is configured) The kernel can also be split (KV_DIR + KV_OUT_DIR), with relevant headers located in both directories. E.g., [1]. [1]