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authorMike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>2016-11-27 13:16:44 -0500
committerMike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>2016-11-27 13:17:22 -0500
commit754e0c414b5bbe6b31311e55b61cc8d8e2e0924b (patch)
treee49406b061216132a8781957c84d7733982fce76 /app-emulation/open-vm-tools
parentapp-shells/bash: unify release version checking logic (diff)
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app-emulation/open-vm-tools: add comment about broken kernel detection
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-rw-r--r--app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-10.1.0.ebuild4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-10.1.0.ebuild b/app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-10.1.0.ebuild
index 55c652f6f4b5..774fa4090a8d 100644
--- a/app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-10.1.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-10.1.0.ebuild
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ src_configure() {
$(use_with X gtkmm3)
$(use_with X x)
+ # configure locates the kernel object directory by looking for
+ # "/lib/modules/${KERNEL_RELEASE}/build".
+ # This will fail if the user is building against an uninstalled kernel.
+ # Fixing this would mean reworking the build system.
$(use_with modules kernel-modules)
--without-root-privileges
--with-kernel-release="${KV_FULL}"