The ndiswrapper 1.2 ebuild fails to compile against the vanilla-sources-2.6.14_rc1 ebuild. It fails with the following messages: make -C //usr/src/linux M=/var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver \ NDISWRAPPER_VERSION=1.2 \ EXTRA_VERSION= modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-rc1' CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/hal.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/iw_ndis.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/loader.o /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/loader.c: In function `register_devices': /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/loader.c:963: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/misc_funcs.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/ndis.o /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/ndis.c:1721:5: warning: "LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION" is not defined CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/ntoskernel.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/pe_linker.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/proc.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/wrapper.o /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/wrapper.c:287:47: macro "halt" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0 /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/wrapper.c: In function `miniport_halt': /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/wrapper.c:287: warning: statement with no effect make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver/wrapper.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-1.2/work/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-rc1' make: *** [default] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.2 failed. !!! Function linux-mod_src_compile, Line 460, Exitcode 2 !!! Unable to make KSRC=//usr/src/linux KVERS=26 all. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge vanilla-sources with ~x86 enabled 2. Set up the symlink correctly 3. Attempt to emerge ndiswrapper Actual Results: Ndiswrapper failed to emerge giving the error messages listed above. Expected Results: Ndiswrapper should've compiled. Portage 2.0.52-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/personal /usr/local/overlays/x-modular" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 100dpi 3dnow 75dpi X aac aalib acl acpi adns alsa animation ao audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts boundschecking cairo ccache cdr cjk client crypt cups dbus djvu dlloader dpms dri dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss encode flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glade glitz gnome gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit ldap libbeagle libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mime mmx mmxext motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic pie plot png pop3 postgres python quicktime readline real ruby sdl server snmp spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga t1lib tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
This still occurs with 2.6.14_rc2. Seems there's a patch for it: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8249591&forum_id=36471 Hopefully there will be a new NDISwrapper release soon (the bug still happens with 1.3_rc1, so just bumping to the latest won't help)...
With every single kernel RC release the previous ndiswrapper does not work known problem. In fact, nearly every driver that the mobile herd maintains suffers from this... This is why we do not support kernel RC release nor MM sources. We support the lastest stable arch and ~arch marked gentoo-sources, suspend2-sources, and mm-sources.
