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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:56 am    Post subject: [SOLVED] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build Reply with quote

Hi,

I had some problems with nvidia-drives and kernel 3.8.0:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-951692-highlight-.html
so I had to downgrade to 3.7.8.

It looks like everything is fine, but I had some such messages 'Could not find a Makefile in the kernel source directory' after last emerge -uDN world.

Code:
 * Messages for package www-client/chromium-25.0.1364.97:

 * Could not find a Makefile in the kernel source directory.
 * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux sources
 * Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build, attempting to use running version
 * Unable to check for the following kernel config options due


Code:
* Messages for package x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.21.3:

 * Could not find a Makefile in the kernel source directory.
 * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux sources
 * Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build, attempting to use running version


Code:
# eselect kernel list
Available kernel symlink targets:
  [1]   linux-3.7.7-gentoo
  [2]   linux-3.7.8-gentoo *
  [3]   linux-3.8.0-gentoo


Code:
$ ls -la /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 20 07:42 /usr/src/linux -> linux-3.7.8-gentoo


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You probably ran depclean, too, and it cleaned your kernel sources, leaving only files that were not part of source package.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jaglover wrote:
You probably ran depclean, too, and it cleaned your kernel sources, leaving only files that were not part of source package.


Yes, I was running depclean to add one of the driver (in manually install) after moving into 3.8.0.
But because there is a problem with 3.8.0 and nvidia-drivers:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-951692-highlight-.html
I had to go back to 3.7.8.

Now some more packages says Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build...
So what should I do? I cannot go for 3.8.0 as this bug with nvidia.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xywa wrote:
Now some more packages says Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build... So what should I do? I cannot go for 3.8.0 as this bug with nvidia.

Xywa ... its not simply a matter of installing the sources, you have to prepare, and or/build, them. It sounds as you have installed sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7.8 but haven't run 'menuconfig', 'oldconfig', 'make' (or what-have-you) and for this reason there is no 'Makefile'. So, assuming you have CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y you will have the .config for the currently booted kernel in /proc and can do the following:

Code:
# zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config
# cd /usr/src/linux && make oldconfig

If you don't have IKCONFIG_PROC enabled but have a known working config from some previous build then you can do the following:

Code:
# cp /path/to/gentoo-sources/.config /usr/src/linux/.config
# cd /usr/src/linux && make oldconfig

This should create the missing Makefile, and your ready to either 'make && make modules_install' or 'emerge nvidia-drivers'.

best ... khay
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

khayyam wrote:
Xywa wrote:
Now some more packages says Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build... So what should I do? I cannot go for 3.8.0 as this bug with nvidia.

Xywa ... its not simply a matter of installing the sources, you have to prepare, and or/build, them. It sounds as you have installed sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7.8 but haven't run 'menuconfig', 'oldconfig', 'make' (or what-have-you) and for this reason there is no 'Makefile'. So, assuming you have CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y you will have the .config for the currently booted kernel in /proc and can do the following:

Code:
# zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config
# cd /usr/src/linux && make oldconfig

If you don't have IKCONFIG_PROC enabled but have a known working config from some previous build then you can do the following:

Code:
# cp /path/to/gentoo-sources/.config /usr/src/linux/.config
# cd /usr/src/linux && make oldconfig

This should create the missing Makefile, and your ready to either 'make && make modules_install' or 'emerge nvidia-drivers'.

best ... khay


Many thanks for all sugestions.

Anyway, I did emerge gentoo-sources again (with masked >3.7.8) and it did the job :)
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