Bug 57079 – svgalib tries to install module to `uname -r`, not where /usr/src/linux points

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Elan Ruusamäe 2004-07-14 16:41:52 UTC]

this is obviously wrong. not everyone compiles there where he also runs gentoo.


# emerge svgalib
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/svgalib-1.9.18-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) svgalib-1.9.18.tar.gz
[cut]
wrapdemo.c:495: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
# chown root wrapdemo
# chmod u+s wrapdemo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.18-r1/work/svgalib-1.9.18/threeDKit'
make -C /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/build SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.18-r1/work/svgalib-1.9.18/kernel/svgalib_helper modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2

!!! ERROR: media-libs/svgalib-1.9.18-r1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 95, Exitcode 2
!!! Failed to build kernel module!


# l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 15 Jul 13 23:47 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.7-ck5/

# l /lib/modules/2.6.7-ck5/build
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 24 Jul 14 02:25 /lib/modules/2.6.7-ck5/build -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.7-ck5/



Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-07-14 16:58:58 UTC]

try svgalib-1.9.19

[Comment 2 Elan Ruusamäe 2004-07-15 04:18:53 UTC]

works there, but it's ~ARCH masked.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-07-15 06:20:48 UTC]

i patched 1.9.19 ;)

lets push it to stable shall we

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-07-15 06:22:21 UTC]

1.9.19 is now stable