[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#785161: Bug#785161: kbuild: module-assistant fails to build virtualbox-source

[lorenz lor]

Hi Frank,

I was not aware of the right procedure to export the module's source from
the VirtualBox tree, so thank you for pointing out :)

@ Debian Maintainers:
I still think there is a problem with m-a and/or virtualbox-source Debian
packages: from the first message I post it seems that m-a is using kmk to
build the vbox module instead of the standard make, and this is an
"unsupported way of building" that leads to the failure.
Of course, as a non developer, I have a limited ability to understand this
kind of problems so if you think there is nothing to fix I won't push this
issue further.

Thank you for your attention

Lorenzo


2015-05-13 14:52 GMT+02:00 Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com>:

> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> On Wednesday 13 May 2015 14:23:09 lorenz lor wrote:
> > I'm a bit confused about the snipped you post: if I understand right, the
> > point is that  " kbuild is not meant to build vbox kernel modules".
> > So to build the modules I'm supposed to do something like
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> > ?
> > is that right?
>
> No.
>
> I'm talking about VirtualBox. To build the sources you need to do
>
>   ./configure
>   kmk
>   kmk packing
>
> This builds the whole tree and as part of the compilation process, the
> kernel
> modules are built as well but these modules are NOT meant to be actually
> used.
> To compile the Linux kernel modules, do
>
>   ./src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/linux/export_modules ~/vboxhost.tar.gz
>
> Then extract the resulting archive and do
>
>   make
>
> in the resulting directory. This will compile the kernel modules against
> the
> currently installed kernel sources.
>
>   make install
>
> Will install the kernel modules into /lib/modules/...
>
> Please be aware that kmk as part of kBuild is something completely
> different
> than Linux kbuild (= kernel build system).
>
> Frank
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