adding symlink use flag support

diff --git a/eclass/kernel-2.eclass b/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
index 257548e86087e577ff3f405938b3de97e2e0af58..10e4e0779735934001e135385fb89a9769a17e32 100644 (file)
--- a/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
+++ b/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/kernel-2.eclass,v 1.83 2005/01/14 11:19:05 johnm Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/kernel-2.eclass,v 1.84 2005/01/14 12:15:15 johnm Exp $
 
 # Description: kernel.eclass rewrite for a clean base regarding the 2.6
 #              series of kernel with back-compatibility for 2.4
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ then
                
        SLOT="${PVR}"
        DESCRIPTION="Sources for the Linux kernel"
-       IUSE="${IUSE} build doc"
+       IUSE="${IUSE} symlink build doc"
 elif [ "${ETYPE}" == "headers" ]
 then
        DESCRIPTION="Linux system headers"
@@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ preinst_headers() {
 postinst_sources() {
        local MAKELINK=0
        
+       # if we have USE=symlink, then force K_SYMLINK=1
+       use symlink && K_SYMLINK=1
+
        # if we are to forcably symlink, delete it if it already exists first.
        if [[ -n ${K_SYMLINK} ]] ; then
                [[ -h ${ROOT}usr/src/linux ]] && rm ${ROOT}usr/src/linux