Bug 35705

Summary:	thinkpad-4.3-r1: no way to specify alternate location of linux sources
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tavin Cole <tavin.cole>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Tavin Cole 2003-12-13 01:39:08 UTC

when emerging thinkpad-4.3-r1, it looks for the linux sources at /usr/src/linux initially, and then later it looks for them at the /lib/modules/KERNEL-VERSION/build symlink.  there's no way to specify the location, e.g.:

LINUXDIR=~/build/linux-2.4.23 emerge thinkpad

perhaps it shouldn't look at /usr/src/linux at all, since the kernel developers have deprecated the practice of keeping the sources there

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2003-12-13 07:56:16 UTC

the way to specify the location is changing the /usr/src/linux symlink.
I'm not sure if adding another env variable may help or not.