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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:48:27PM -0400, Christopher Martin wrote:
> On April 12, 2009 13:36:36 Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Only because $(VERSION) is empty for you, and that is the problem. 
> > How did you try to build the module?
> 
> I tried:
> 
> cd /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel
> (after unpacking /usr/src/nvidia-kernel.tar.bz2)
> 
> KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.29-1-686-bigmem \
> KVERS=2.6.29-1-686-bigmem debian/rules binary_modules

That is no longer a complete set of headers and you can't build against
it like that.  The kernel team says that is no longer supported.

> This is what I've done for a long time (changing the kernel in question 
> each time, obviously).

Why not use module-assitant?  I sure didn't test that old way of doing
it when I rewrote the build scripts.

I used module-assistant and a hacked up version of
linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 and both worked.

I did not test make-kpkg or doing it manually (which I stopped doing
years ago when I discovered module-assistant).

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Len Sorensen