app-emulation/open-vm-tools: add comment about broken kernel detection

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 55c652f6f4b54a2f1a48cb19d387f3c2034d40cd..774fa4090a8d149bef593a18a77333980cc30468 100644 (file)
--- 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}"