Bug 93451 – emerging submount fails if there is no file scripts/mod/modpost in /usr/src/linux

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Sergey Shkoliarenko 2005-05-21 11:21:23 UTC]

make couldn't find file /usr/src/linux/scripts/mod/modpost while emerging and fails

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge submount
Actual Results:  
[skipped some output]
 * Preparing subfs module
make -C /usr/src/linux
M=/var/tmp/portage/submount-0.9-r2/work/submount-0.9/subfs-0.9 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-r1'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/submount-0.9-r2/work/submount-0.9/subfs-0.9/subfs.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
/bin/sh: line 1: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Ошибка 127
make[1]: *** [modules] Ошибка 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-r1'
make: *** [default] Ошибка 2



workaround is:
1. cd /usr/src/linux/
2. make scripts/mod/

[Comment 1 Sergey Shkoliarenko 2005-05-21 11:23:23 UTC]

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 12 2005, 01:59:25)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.4.3-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://10.0.0.10/linux/gentoo/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/
http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/
http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="ru_RU.ISO8859-5"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.10/portage/"
USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cscope cups
curl emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2
imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls
ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png python qt quicktime
readline samba scanner sdl slang spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-06-20 10:53:40 UTC]

The modpost script is generated when you build your kernel. I don't see why it
wouldn't be there unless you manually removed it.