Bug#741498: nvidia-kernel-dkms: fails to build for self-compiled 3.12.x kernel

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:28:29 +0200 Alexander Hofbauer
<alex at derhofbauer.at> wrote:
> > This looks like it is related to your kernel configuration, it works fne
> > on the Debian stock kernel.
> 
> 
> I'm not a sure whether the kernel config is to blame here.
> 
> Trying to compile for 3.15-rc8 I get exactly the same error. Might be a
> coincidence, but nevertheless I was able to trace back the problem to
> conftest.h not being able to correctly test for kernel version.
> 
> E.g. "testing for >= 3,10,0" always chooses the else branch (verified by
> adding an #error statement there).
> 
> Further tests (manually resolving every define in conftest.h) yielded a
> compiling and loading kernel module.

Is this issue still present with the latest drivers available in stable,
unstable or experimental? The module build infrastructure was completely
overhauled since this bug was reported ...


Andreas