Hi Lorenzo, I can reproduce, but couldn't this be a problem of m-a?
I would like to reassign, maybe m-a is using the wrong build system for virtualbox, and just by chance it worked before. cheers, G. Il Mercoledì 13 Maggio 2015 19:18, lorenz lor <lorenzo.r...@gmail.com> ha scritto: The sequence is # apt-get install virtualbox-source # m-a update # m-a prepare # m-a build virtualbox-source the last command is supposed to create a .deb package but the building process fails at about 30%; as a result you can view the build log Lorenzo 2015-05-13 18:43 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it>: Please post the *exact* sequence you run in order to spot the problem. > > >I never used vbox source, I use vbox-dkms :) > > >cheers, > > >G. > > >Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android >________________________________ > >From:"lorenz lor" <lorenzo.r...@gmail.com> >Date:Wed, 13 May, 2015 at 18:40 >Subject:Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#785161: kbuild: module-assistant fails >to build virtualbox-source > > >Hi Frank, > > >I was not aware of the right procedure to export the module's source from the >VirtualBox tree, so thank you for pointing out :) > > >@ Debian Maintainers: >I still think there is a problem with m-a and/or virtualbox-source Debian >packages: from the first message I post it seems that m-a is using kmk to >build the vbox module instead of the standard make, and this is an >"unsupported way of building" that leads to the failure. >Of course, as a non developer, I have a limited ability to understand this >kind of problems so if you think there is nothing to fix I won't push this >issue further. > > >Thank you for your attention > > >Lorenzo > > > > >2015-05-13 14:52 GMT+02:00 Frank Mehnert <frank.mehn...@oracle.com>: > >Hi Lorenzo, >> >>On Wednesday 13 May 2015 14:23:09 lorenz lor wrote: >>> I'm a bit confused about the snipped you post: if I understand right, the >>> point is that " kbuild is not meant to build vbox kernel modules". >>> So to build the modules I'm supposed to do something like >>> ./configure >>> make >>> make install >>> ? >>> is that right? >> >>No. >> >>I'm talking about VirtualBox. To build the sources you need to do >> >> ./configure >> kmk >> kmk packing >> >>This builds the whole tree and as part of the compilation process, the kernel >>modules are built as well but these modules are NOT meant to be actually used. >>To compile the Linux kernel modules, do >> >> ./src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/linux/export_modules ~/vboxhost.tar.gz >> >>Then extract the resulting archive and do >> >> make >> >>in the resulting directory. This will compile the kernel modules against the >>currently installed kernel sources. >> >> make install >> >>Will install the kernel modules into /lib/modules/... >> >>Please be aware that kmk as part of kBuild is something completely different >>than Linux kbuild (= kernel build system). >> >>Frank >>-- >>Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox >>ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany >> >>ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG >>Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München >>Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 >> >>Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. >>Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande >>Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 >>Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
