[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#523716: Another build failure...

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-04-12 15:15 +0200, Christopher Martin wrote:

> My build (180.44-1) also failed here:
>
> dh_installdocs
> dh_installmodules
> dh_installchangelogs
> dh_installmodules
> dh_strip
> dh_compress
> dh_fixperms
> dh_installdeb
> dh_gencontrol -- -v

Strange, I get 

dh_gencontrol -- -v180.44-1+custom.1.2

at this stage (the custom.1.2 being the Debian revision of my
linux-image package).

> dpkg-gencontrol: unknown option `-v'

This error message is misleading, since -v is actually a known option,
but the version argument is missing.

> Usage: dpkg-gencontrol [<option> ...]
>
> Options:
>   -p<package>              print control file for package.
>   -c<controlfile>          get control info from this file.
>   -l<changelogfile>        get per-version info from this file.
>   -F<changelogformat>      force change log format.
>   -v<forceversion>         set version of binary package.
>   -f<fileslistfile>        write files here instead of debian/files.
>   -P<packagebuilddir>      temporary build dir instead of debian/tmp.
>   -n<filename>             assume the package filename will be 
> <filename>.
>   -O                       write to stdout, not .../DEBIAN/control.
>   -is, -ip, -isp, -ips     deprecated, ignored for compatibility.
>   -D<field>=<value>        override or add a field and value.
>   -U<field>                remove a field.
>   -V<name>=<value>         set a substitution variable.
>   -T<varlistfile>          read variables here, not debian/substvars.
>   -h, --help               show this help message.
>       --version            show the version.
> dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol returned exit code 2
> make: *** [binary-modules] Error 1
>
> ---
>
> I simply edited debian/rules to change "dh_gencontrol -- -v$(VERSION)" 
> into "dh_gencontrol -- $(VERSION)". Seems to work...

Only because $(VERSION) is empty for you, and that is the problem.  How
did you try to build the module?

Sven