On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:53:35PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:32:57PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > OVS needs to inspect the headers in the kernel source directory at build > > > time. Debian keeps moving the source directory relative to the build > > > directory and doesn't provide an obvious way to find the source directory, > > > so in the past we've used some name-based heuristics to essentially guess > > > where it is. > > > > > > This commit introduces a new heuristic that I hope will be more reliable: > > > extracting the source directory from the Makefile in the build directory. > > > In Debian's case, it looks like the Makefile generally contains a line of > > > the form "MAKEARGS := -C <srcdir> O=<outdir>". This commit extracts the > > > source directory from that line. > > > > > > To avoid regressions this commit retains the older heuristics as > > > fallbacks. > > > > > > CC: 659...@bugs.debian.org > > > Reported-by: Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> > > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> > > > > It seems OK to me. > > Thanks. Pushed to master and branch-1.[2345]. > > > How do other packages solve this problem? It > > seems like we have a particularly bad time. > > I've been unable to locate other modules that do this kind of thing. > I looked at virtualbox, the nvidia drivers, ndiswrapper, > xtables-addons.
Curious. I'm fine with your patch as it seems to improve things. But it would be nice not to have to jump thorough hoops like this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
