This is unconfirmed and could do with some checking out. To quote the user in question: "Thanks, this fixed my problems too. Had to use build option to emerge svgalib. It seems that genkernel doesn't create symbolic links inside kernel tree as required by svgalib. Compiling kernel this way fixed that." The "this way" in question was "cd /usr/src/linux; make oldconfig clean bzImage modules". The goal was to get a kernel source tree that would allow compilation of a kernel module, in this case svgalib. Apparently, according to this user, genkernel doesn't leave you with this. It most certainly should do AFAICT. plasmaroo, can you check this? I don't use genkernel on my box and don't really have time to fiddle with it (having grub-0.95 troubles).
Trying: # cd /usr/src/linux # rm linux # ln -sf linux-2.6.8-rc1 linux # cp linux-2.6.7/.config linux # genkernel --no-mrproper --no-install kernel [[ Compiles ]] # emerge svgalib [[ Works fine ]] ... so I can't really see the issue and hence I'm closing this as INVALID. If you can get me a reproducible test-case then please reopen this bug and I'll be happy to have a look at it. Thanks!
Okay, I'm reopening this one on a hunch. I'm fairly sure that this shouldn't work at all unless you do a "make mrproper" first - the symlinks are already there if the source tree isn't mrproper'd (make clean isn't enough). So, try this, and if it *still* doesn't work, close it again as INVALID and it'll hopefully be the last you hear of it ;-) cd /usr/src rm linux ln -s linux-2.6.8-rc1 linux cd linux make mrproper cd .. cp linux-2.6.7/.config linux genkernel --no-mrproper --no-install kernel ... emerge -C svgalib (I think this is important too) emerge svgalib ... You don't need to bother with the svgalib stuff as long as the internal symlink is still there after the compile: ls /usr/src/linux/include/asm -l
Still compiles fine :-|
