Control: severity -1 important
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
Control: retitle -1 iptables-netflow-dkms: module FTBFS under some
circumstances, probably related to some kernel headers not being present
Hi Andreas,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > iptables-netflow-dkms fails to build a kernel module for Linux 4.17:
> >
> > DKMS make.log for ipt-netflow-2.3 for kernel 4.17.0-1-amd64 (x86_64)
> > Tue Jul 24 18:39:22 UTC 2018
> > make: *** No rule to make target 'ipt_NETFLOW.ko'. Stop.
>
> Thanks, yes. I've seen this already on one of my boxes, but haven't
> found the cause on a first glance.
Hrm. Depends on the machine.
On my workstation, I can't reproduce it neither with
* "dpkg-reconfigure iptables-netflow-dkms", nor with
* uninstalling and installing iptables-netflow-dkms again, nor with
* uninstalling and installing a kernel package again.
But on my laptop, a simple "dpkg-reconfigure iptables-netflow-dkms"
sufficed — but only until I rebooted into the most recently installed
kernel.
For the previous kernel, the kernel headers were already no more
present. So I currently assume that this is related.
Can you check if the kernel headers for the running kernel were
present when you encountered the issue?
If so, I might need to patch upstream's build system to cope with that
situation, as I'd expect that while the currently running kernel
version should be the default, but not the only one possible. (IIRC I
was able to compile the module for kernel 4.16 while running 4.17 with
the kernel headers already being installed while the 4.16 package has
been installed again.)
Downgrading the severity to important as it only seems to happen if
the headers for the current kernel already have been removed, which I
consider to be close to not installed dependency. (Feel free to
upgrade to RC again, if you disagree of if that wasn't the case when
you stumbled upon this issue.)
Regards, Axel
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