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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
: High minor
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

Reproducible: Always
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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.