On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:30:45AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > This is just a total guess, but I can suppose that lspci uses it to convey > which kernel modules are being used by each PCI device.
Clarification: kmod is used specifically with the `-k` switch of lspci:
$ ash-euses -o pciutils:kmod
sys-apps/pciutils:kmod - Enable sys-apps/kmod support for the -k switch
in lspci command
This causes the LIBKMOD variable to be passed to the Makefile [1, 2]:
pemake() {
emake \
[...]
LIBKMOD=$(multilib_native_usex kmod) \
[...]
"$@"
}
Anyway, with regards to your problem: if you're just installing your system now,
then you're probably getting this error because `/lib/modules` doesn't exist
inside your chroot. This path is hardcoded into pciutils [3]; this has been
modified by some vendors of the package, but not Gentoo [4]. You needn't worry
unless you're still getting this error outside of your chroot, once you've
completed the installation. Just focus on building a kernel for now.
[1]
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/pciutils/pciutils-3.7.0.ebuild#n81
[2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/multilib-build.eclass/#lbAE
[3]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git/tree/ls-kernel.c#n134
[4]
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/286c836b3f1421553c103758537929e596256e65#diff-0a685886728285db8aa0594d87cb29b4
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