Bug 214670 – app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 fails to emerge because of missing kvm.h on os X

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Martin Hauser 2008-03-25 10:46:47 UTC]

emerging app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 will result in a build error (build log attached).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge portage-utils

[Comment 1 Martin Hauser 2008-03-25 10:48:06 UTC]

Created attachment 147238 [details]
promised build.log for portage-utils

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2008-03-25 10:51:13 UTC]

This is a leopard problem, Tiger has /usr/include/kvm.h

[Comment 3 Martin Hauser 2008-03-25 11:08:36 UTC]

Probably,... running through all possible include directories did not yield any kvm.h... further googling and checking for resulting manpages seems even to suggest kvm_* has been removed from leopard.

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2008-03-25 11:17:47 UTC]

that is very well possible.  I need to check it to see if the same can be implemented in another way (which is also more useful, as kvm requires root on OSX)

[Comment 5 Fabian Groffen 2008-03-25 16:08:53 UTC]

I dropped the patch, it required root on 10.4 anyway.  I need to find a better way to do it usign sysctl or something.