[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#553625: dkms: KERNELRELEASE is silently added to MAKE[#]

[Frédéric Brière]

Package: dkms
Version: 2.1.0.1-1
Severity: normal

The documentation seems to imply that MAKE[#] is just the regular make
invocation for building the module.  It fails to mention that
KERNELRELEASE will be forcibly added, thus breaking a typical modules
Makefile if invoked directly:

  ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
  # Define obj-m and such
  else
  # Invoke $(MAKE) M=... on the kernel source
  endif


Defining MAKE[#] as "make ..." (instead of "make -C ${kernel_source_dir}
...") will simply not work, which confused the hell out of me for a
while.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.8 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential           11.4           Informational list of build-essent
ii  dpkg-dev                  1.15.4.1       Debian package development tools
ii  gcc                       4:4.3.3-9+nmu1 The GNU C compiler
ii  make                      3.81-6         An utility for Directing compilati
ii  module-init-tools         3.11-1         tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot           1.14.3                Gives a fake root environment
ii  linux-headers-2.6. 2.6.26.8-10.00.Custom Header files related to Linux kern
ii  linux-image-2.6.26 2.6.26.8-10.00.Custom Linux kernel binary image for vers
ii  lsb-release        3.2-23                Linux Standard Base version report
ii  menu               2.1.42                generates programs menu for all me
ii  patch              2.5.9-5               Apply a diff file to an original
ii  sudo               1.7.2p1-1             Provide limited super user privile

dkms suggests no packages.

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