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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 5:12 am Post subject: [Solved] virtualbox xf86-video-virtualbox Build Failure

virtualbox xf86-video-virtualbox compile fails with "KERN_DIR does not point to a directory"

In my case, it's a permission thing.
Root, on my system, gives no world access, by default.
Assuming kernel version 4.0.5-gentoo, I had to

Code:

chmod o+rx /lib/modules/4.0.5-gentoo
chmod o+r /lib/modules/4.0.5-gentoo/* # Not sure if this was strictly necessary

I generally also have to

Code:

chown -R portage:portage /usr/src/linux/

so that portage has the ability to do the needful.
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