Hi Helmut, > From: Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2022 2:49 PM > > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 02:13:34PM +0000, Moessbauer, Felix wrote: > > Many thanks for the patch. > > I just (manually) backported that to Debian bullseye, tested it for arm64 > > and it > worked like a charm. > > Can we please stop piling up workarounds and instead fix this once and for > all? > > I see us mirroring the "LTS problem" here: Everyone maintains their own stuff > with local patches and it barely works. LTS now has a solution in the form of > freexian where the effort is centralized and made available for the benefit of > everyone.
In general I agree, but here the situation is a bit different: The dependency to the host compiler (e.g. arm64) is too narrow. In general, any gcc compiler in the correct version should do. As discussed earlier the linux-headers -> compiler dependency is just a convenience dep. I proposed to remove it or move it to the "recommends" section. But the proposed solution might be better as it maintains backwards compatibility. For users that just want to cross-compile a module, there is simply no reason why the have to install the compiler for the host architecture (e.g. arm64). And this use-case is perfectly solved in the patch from Ben. Felix > > Helmut
