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From: Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 00:20:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510070020.32010.elinar@ihug.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510071127.10998.bogo-mipps@e3.net.nz>

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:27, Bogo Mipps wrote:
>  *    getfilevar <VARIABLE> <CONFIGFILE>
>  * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory.
>  * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux
> sources.
>  * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that
>  * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find
> .config.
>
> Why would the .config that's in the directory not be usable?  I just did
> the make oldconfig && make as you suggested - which ran without errors ...

Bah! try
	cd /usr/src/linux
	make menuconfig
exit out of that and save in the process. Try the emerge again. Stupid 
software ;)
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-07  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-06  4:17 [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread] Bogo Mipps
2005-10-06  4:50 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-10-06  6:11   ` Bogo Mipps
2005-10-06  6:42     ` Glenn Enright
2005-10-06  7:42       ` Glenn Enright
2005-10-06  8:04         ` Bogo Mipps
2005-10-06  9:54           ` Glenn Enright
2005-10-06 22:27             ` Bogo Mipps
2005-10-07  0:20               ` Glenn Enright [this message]
2005-10-07 22:11                 ` [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [SOLVED - SORT OF][New Thread] Bogo Mipps
2005-10-06 15:29           ` [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread] Rumen Yotov
2005-10-07 22:12             ` [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [SOLVED, SORT OF][New Thread] Bogo Mipps

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