35704 – xfree-drm-4.3.0-r6: no way to specify alternate location of linux source tree during emerge

Bug 35704 - xfree-drm-4.3.0-r6: no way to specify alternate location of linux source tree during emerge

Summary: xfree-drm-4.3.0-r6: no way to specify alternate location of linux source tree...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2003-12-13 01:34 UTC by Tavin Cole
Modified:	2003-12-13 07:46 UTC (History)
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Description Tavin Cole 2003-12-13 01:34:12 UTC

when emerging xfree-drm-4.3.0-r6, it looks for the kernel sources at /usr/src/linux.  there should be a way to override this with an alternate location, e.g.:

LINUXDIR=~/build/linux-2.4.23 emerge xfree-drm

maybe it shouldn't even look for /usr/src/linux at all, since the kernel developers have deprecated the practice of keeping the sources there

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Comment 1 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2003-12-13 07:46:25 UTC

sorry, the current way to specify the kernel source is using that symlink ( /usr/src/linux -> your/kernel/wierdly/placed ).

please refer to the forum/mailing list for a in depth explanation for that.