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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel Compilation
From:       Philippe FREMY <P.FREMY () OBERTHURCS ! com>
Date:       2002-12-16 8:42:30
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> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:18:31 -0800
> "Bobby R. Cox" <brcox2@easystreet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Something I ran into the other day.  I have the source for
> > 2.4.19-r7,9,10 in /usr/src/... I was unable to emerge the new nvidia
> > drivers, because it was saying I didn't have version.h. And the error
> > went on to tell me that I could just run make include/linux/blah to
> > create it, but when I did it would give me an error that said nothing
> > to make blah blah.  Come to find out that that particular kernel I was
> > using no longer had the Makefile and so fourth.  Upon futher
> > investigation the only source directory out of the three that did was
> > the latest r10.  

Same for me, except the r10 did not even compile!

> I've seen this too. It's bad manners on the part of emerge. 
> When it updates the kernel sources, it deletes the old.

Too bad!

	regards,

	PHilippe
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