Bug 106232 – svgalib-1.9.21-r1 doesn't build if kernel support for modules not enabled (2.6.9-gentoo-r13 anyway)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Greg Slocum 2005-09-16 20:12:36 UTC]

svgalib-1.9.21-r1 doesn't build if kernel support for modules not enabled
(2.6.9-gentoo-r13 anyway).  It says I should enable modules in my kernel, and
try again.

I don't want to enable modules.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.turn of modules in kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r13
2.emerge svgalib svgalib-1.9.21-r1
3.

Actual Results:  
svgalib didn't build

Expected Results:  
svgalib should have build

[Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2005-09-16 20:15:07 UTC]

Er, svgalib is a kernel module.  No module support, no svgalib support...

[Comment 2 Greg Slocum 2005-09-17 20:22:10 UTC]

What?!?!? 

Quote from svgalib.org:  "SVGAlib is simply a binary C library which is called
by C programs, just like all the other libraries in /lib and /usr/lib. If
SVGAlib is properly installed, the average user shouldn't even be aware of its
existence."

That doesn't *sound* like a module...  neither does the "lib" on the end of the
name...  "svgalib"

It obviously must want to access some kind of a external "module" or driver.  I
reported this bug because when modules are turned off the build curls its toes
and dies instead of resolving against fixed symbols in the kernel the way it is
supposed to.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-09-18 02:04:23 UTC]

svgalib needs svgalib_helper kernel module, otherwise you cannot use it. No
modules, no joy. 

Closing.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-09-18 02:07:17 UTC]

If you want *only* the library (for development, probably), then do
"USE=no-helper emerge svgalib"