It seems compiling the kernel module is impossible if the user does not run the kernel version that he's trying to compile lufs for (meaning /usr/src/linux does not point to the running kernel). This may seem an idiotic complaint, but I am running Gentoo on a laptop with a slow cpu and pretty small hd, and I compile binary packages on a more powerful system under a chroot jail, which is a complete duplicate of my laptop installation. The host system and the laptop run a different kernel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.symlink /usr/src/linux to a kernel source tree that does NOT match your running kernel 2. emerge lufs Actual Results: emerge output (tail): checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i586-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking OS... Linux checking kernel... 2.6.7 checking kernel support... supported in kernel/Linux/2.6 checking kernel headers... found in //usr/include checking kernel configuration... not found at /lib/modules/2.6.7/build/.config, assuming modversions support checking modversions.h... configure: error: not found! !!! ERROR: sys-fs/lufs-0.9.7-r3 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 449, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. laptop localhost src # ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23 Jan 20 11:36 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r5/ laptop localhost src # uname -r 2.6.7 Expected Results: just follow the /usr/src/linux symlink to find kernel headers and not look at the output of uname -r .
kern packages should always read /usr/src/linux for their source code ... that's Gentoo policy for exactly this reason ;)
${ROOT}/usr/src/linux
What about using sshfs-fuse instead? lufs is old deprecated .. and I dont really want to support it. There is also shfs, if we speak of alternatives.
rebouncing to kernel in case anyone else wants to fix it.
Can you please look at http://dev.gentoo.org/~genstef/files/overlay/lufs/lufs-0.9.7-r3.ebuild Does that solve your problem?
This does not work: dionysos lufs # emerge lufs --ask These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-fs/lufs-0.9.7-r3 -debug 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-fs/lufs-0.9.7-r3 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) lufs-0.9.7.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking lufs-0.9.7.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/lufs-0.9.7-r3/work * Applying lufs-0.9.7-fPIC.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying lufs-automount-port.diff ... [ ok ] * Applying lufs-0.9.7-enable-gnome-2.patch ... [ ok ] * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/sys-fs/lufs/files/lufs-no-kernel.patch * ( lufs-no-kernel.patch ) !!! ERROR: sys-fs/lufs-0.9.7-r3 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 256, Exitcode 0 !!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Something appears to be missing.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~genstef/files/overlay/lufs/files/lufs-no-kernel.patch there is the patch :) Here is the directory structure in case you wonder how to save it: http://dev.gentoo.org/~genstef/files/overlay/lufs/
thanks, fixed in the tree now.
