Bug 65518 – net-wireless/ipw2100-0.54 confuses kernels at compile time.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2004-09-27 04:59:00 UTC]

I have symlinked /usr/src/linux to 2.6.8-gentoo-r3, but I am running 2.6.7-gentoo-r1.

In this case, the following happens:

 * Patching Makefile to enable WPA
 * /usr/src/linux is a symbolic link
 * Determining the real directory of the Linux kernel source code
 * Building for Linux 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 found in /usr/src/linux
>>> Source unpacked.
make -C //usr/src/linux M=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54 MODVERDIR=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-gentoo-r3'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_module.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_tx.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_rx.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_wx.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ipw2100_main.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_wep.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.o
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ipw2100.o
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
  CC      /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211.mod.o
  CC      /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt.mod.o
  CC      /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.mod.o
  CC      /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.mod.o
  CC      /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_wep.mod.o
  CC      /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ipw2100.mod.o
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211.ko
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt.ko
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.ko
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54/ipw2100.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-gentoo-r3'
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: net-wireless/ipw2100-0.54

>>> Install ipw2100-0.54 into /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/image/ category net-wireless
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.7-gentoo-r1/build M=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54 MODVERDIR=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-0.54/work/ipw2100-0.54 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.7-gentoo-r1/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2

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I have no idea where it picks up the 2.6.7-gentoo-r1.

[Comment 1 tklauser 2004-09-27 06:03:00 UTC]

In src_compile() of ipw2100-0.54.ebuild

  emake KMISC=${D}/lib/modules/${KV}/net install || die

is used. I think somehow ${KV} must have been set to 2.6.7-gentoo-r1 (i.e. the running kernel) instead of 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (i.e. the new kernel you want to compile the module for).

I don't know, where ${KV} is set, although the eclass kernel-mod is inherited, but strange enough it's not set there.

[Comment 2 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2004-09-27 14:14:57 UTC]

Actually, ${KV} is correct at that point, but KMISC seems to not be picked up
properly by the Makefile. Adding KVER=${KV} as an additional param to emake
works around the problem. However, it will still ignore KMISC, so it's not a
good solution.

[Comment 3 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-09 08:03:02 UTC]

I've fixed this in net-wireless/ipw2100-0.55-r2

Reporter, please confirm.

[Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-17 02:06:20 UTC]

Closing as FIXED.