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Bug 35705 - thinkpad-4.3-r1: no way to specify alternate location of linux sources
Summary: thinkpad-4.3-r1: no way to specify alternate location of linux sources
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2003-12-13 01:39 UTC by Tavin Cole
Modified: 2003-12-13 07:56 UTC (History)
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Description Tavin Cole 2003-12-13 01:39:08 UTC 
when emerging thinkpad-4.3-r1, it looks for the linux sources at /usr/src/linux initially, and then later it looks for them at the /lib/modules/KERNEL-VERSION/build symlink.  there's no way to specify the location, e.g.:

LINUXDIR=~/build/linux-2.4.23 emerge thinkpad

perhaps it shouldn't look at /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 07:56:16 UTC 
the way to specify the location is changing the /usr/src/linux symlink.
I'm not sure if adding another env variable may help or not.