Bug 419775 – x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.49 fail to compile with kernel 3.4

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 414645
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan K 2012-06-05 14:58:35 UTC]

Kernel sources for 3.4 miss a header required by nvidia-drivers.
Compilation fails with:

In file included from /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.49/work/kernel/nv.c:13:0:
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.49/work/kernel/nv-linux.h:114:75: fatal error: asm/system.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Solution and more info: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2012/04/01/3-4-0-rc1-and-nvidia-drivers/

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jan K 2012-06-05 15:00:31 UTC]

Created attachment 314317 [details, diff]
Patch (1/2) fixing the issue.

[Comment 2 Jan K 2012-06-05 15:02:11 UTC]

Created attachment 314321 [details, diff]
Patch (2/2) fixing the issue.

Patches suggested by the link mentioned above.
The ebuild supports user patches, so one can simply place the patches in
/etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2012-06-05 15:44:15 UTC]

nvidia-drivers-295.53 works fine for me.

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2012-06-05 15:46:12 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 414645 ***