[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#469882: Bug#469882: virtualbox-ose-source:

Philipp Kern pkern at debian.org
Sun Mar 9 13:28:33 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:13:38PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> The rules file checks KVERS to find out. And this doesn't work with a
> vanilla kernel I'd suppose. 
> 
> /me checks and finds:
> ifneq ($(shell echo $(KVERS)|cut -f 3 -d"-"),amd64)
>         ARCH := i386
> ...
> 
> Yes, that's it. You're KVERS probably doesn't have the architecture in
> there.

KVERS is just the version number which is `2.6.24' on vanilla kernels,
not like `2.6.24-ABI-ARCH' on Debian kernels.  So this architecture
check is quite bogus.

Thank you for investigating,
Philipp Kern
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