Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 7.1.8-dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream sid forky

Hi,

virtualbox-dkms fails to build the module(s) for Linux 6.15 in
experimental:

DKMS (dkms-3.2.0) make.log for virtualbox/7.1.8 for kernel 6.15-rc7-amd64 
(x86_64)
Sat May 24 21:54:02 UTC 2025

Building module(s)
# command: make -j14 KERNELRELEASE=6.15-rc7-amd64 -C 
/lib/modules/6.15-rc7-amd64/build M=/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.1.8/build
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-amd64'
make[1]: Entering directory '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.1.8/build'
  CC [M]  vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o
  CC [M]  vboxdrv/SUPDrv.o
  CC [M]  vboxdrv/SUPDrvGip.o
  CC [M]  vboxdrv/SUPDrvSem.o
  CC [M]  vboxdrv/SUPDrvTracer.o
  CC [M]  vboxdrv/SUPLibAll.o
In file included from vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:42:
vboxdrv/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:47:10: fatal error: VBox/cdefs.h: No such 
file or directory
   47 | #include <VBox/cdefs.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from vboxdrv/SUPDrvSem.c:43:
vboxdrv/SUPDrvInternal.h:47:10: fatal error: VBox/cdefs.h: No such file or 
directory
   47 | #include <VBox/cdefs.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:208: 
vboxdrv/SUPDrvSem.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  CC [M]  vboxdrv/common/string/strformatrt.o
make[4]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:208: 
vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
In file included from vboxdrv/SUPDrv.c:43:
vboxdrv/SUPDrvInternal.h:47:10: fatal error: VBox/cdefs.h: No such file or 
directory
   47 | #include <VBox/cdefs.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from vboxdrv/SUPDrvGip.c:43:
vboxdrv/SUPDrvInternal.h:47:10: fatal error: VBox/cdefs.h: No such file or 
directory
   47 | #include <VBox/cdefs.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:208: 
vboxdrv/SUPDrvGip.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:208: 
vboxdrv/SUPDrv.o] Error 1
In file included from vboxdrv/SUPDrvTracer.c:43:
vboxdrv/SUPDrvInternal.h:47:10: fatal error: VBox/cdefs.h: No such file or 
directory
   47 | #include <VBox/cdefs.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:208: 
vboxdrv/SUPDrvTracer.o] Error 1
vboxdrv/SUPLibAll.c:41:10: fatal error: VBox/sup.h: No such file or directory
   41 | #include <VBox/sup.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:208: 
vboxdrv/SUPLibAll.o] Error 1
vboxdrv/common/string/strformatrt.c:42:10: fatal error: iprt/string.h: No such 
file or directory
   42 | #include <iprt/string.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:208: 
vboxdrv/common/string/strformatrt.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** 
[/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/scripts/Makefile.build:466: vboxdrv] 
Error 2
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/Makefile:2027: .] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/Makefile:260: __sub-make] 
Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.1.8/build'
make: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-common/Makefile:260: __sub-make] 
Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.15-rc7-amd64'

# exit code: 2
# elapsed time: 00:00:01
----------------------------------------------------------------


This is most likely caused by the usage of deprecated EXTRA_CFLAGS
(superseded by ccflags-y since 2007) where the backwards compatibility
support has been removed in v6.15-rc1, finally.
"kbuild: remove EXTRA_*FLAGS support"
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e966ad0edd0056c7491b8f23992c11734ab61ddf

Andreas

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