Bug 61934 – nss ebuild on 2.6.8 kernel fails. Workaround found, but need to fix for real

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61166
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hoyle Anderson 2004-08-27 08:27:29 UTC]

2.6.8 kernel fails. the workaround is an incomplete solution and should be fixed by someone more skilled than me.

I got the error:
make: *** No rule to make target ./coreconf/Linux2.6.8.mk

For my system I changed the ebuild line
cp ${S}/mozilla/security/coreconf/Linux2.5.mk ${S}/mozilla/security/coreconf/Linux2.6.8.mk
from "Linux2.6.mk" to "Linux2.6.8.mk"

and also the line containing "cp Linux2.5.mk Linux2.6.mk" to "cp Linux2.5.mk Linux2.6.8.mk"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge nss
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
no workie.

[Comment 1 Wendall Cada 2004-09-23 12:24:55 UTC]

I can confirm that this is a bug with NSS 3.8 using the 2.6.8.1 kernel. The .1 is breaking the make file. I hardcoded the linux kernel version in and it builds as expected. This is a problem with ifeq() in config.mk

[Comment 2 Jan Stanik 2004-10-05 01:10:17 UTC]

I am also using 2.6.8.1 Linux kernel and also I got this bug. Then, I did to try edit nss-3.8.ebuild file at line #60:

original line:
cp Linux2.5.mk Linux2.6.mk

edited line:
cp Linux2.5.mk Linux2.6.8mk

and after this step I did to perform new emerge nss and it works fine for me:-)

IMHO, maybe the problem originate in wideness of Linux2.6.8.1 description, where the numbers field is 4-digits long and previous versions of kernel have just 3-digits asignment. Last one digit is stripped out and in previous 2.6 version just "2.6" remains, but when 2.6.8.1 is stripped, result is 2.6.8. And this is origin point of failure. As I saw: IMHO :-).

[Comment 3 Danny 2004-10-09 12:45:52 UTC]

This fix worked for me, anyone have a more permanent solution?

[Comment 4 Daniel Westermann-Clark 2004-10-16 22:27:13 UTC]

Possibly a duplicate of bug 61166.

[Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 09:32:52 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61166 ***