Bug 140850

Summary:	ati-drivers won't compile with specified "local version"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Colin DuPée <Pragmataraxia>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Kernel_Configuration
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Colin DuPée 2006-07-17 15:46:59 UTC

I don't know if anyone particularly cares...

I'm running an amd64 kernel, and if I specify a local version* when compiling the kernel, x11-drivers/ati-drivers is unable to find the kernel source, and bombs out while compiling.

I updated the wiki at the attached address so people had a hope of fixing it since the errors it throws are a bit cryptic.

Other packages don't have this problem, so there has to be something that can be done.  I'm assuming the script is using 'uname -r' to construct the path to the sources, and if you have a local version specified... well, that doesn't work.

*Just in case I'm the only one who ever uses local version, I'm talking about:
General setup --->
 () Local version - append to kernel release

Comment 1 Marien Zwart (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-22 22:40:58 UTC

I am unable to reproduce this. Can you attach a build log if this still happens with recent versions (test with 8.34.8 if possible)?

Comment 2 Colin DuPée 2007-03-08 02:16:43 UTC

I can't repro this any more with recent builds.  I'll remove the workaround from the wiki.