[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#525923: Bug#525923: nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source: Missing make target "kdist"

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:15:16PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote:
> Package: nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
> Version: 173.14.18-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

No it doesn't.  It works fine with module-assistant.

> Running "make-kpkg modules" as root with unset $LANG aborts with the message
>   make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx'
>   make[1]: *** No rule to make target `kdist'.  Stop.
>   make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx'
>   Module /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx failed.
>   Hit return to Continue?
> and no nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-2.6.29_173.14.18-1*_i386.deb is built.
> This happens for linux-source-2.6.29 2.6.29-2 and 2.6.29-3.

Well I guess I really should go work on the kdist support again.
It works with linux-modules-* and module-assistant.  It just doesn't
work with make-kpkg.  Why do we have so many ways to build modules anyhow.

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Len Sorensen