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--- Begin Message ---Package: linux-kbuild-3.5 Version: 3.5-1~experimental.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these lines *** I tried to use linux-kbuild-3.5 to build a driver for a Realtek card driver but the driver won't load due to an "Exec format error". I guess this is because kbuild is for 3.5 but the kernel version in experimental is called 3.5-trunk. I tried to use the "mini howto" from <http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2012/08/msg00390.html> but I can't find any way to make it work with the "trunk" suffix. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-kbuild-3.5 depends on: ii libc6 2.13-35 linux-kbuild-3.5 recommends no packages. linux-kbuild-3.5 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 03:49:17PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > Package: linux-kbuild-3.5 > Version: 3.5-1~experimental.1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > * What was the outcome of this action? > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > *** End of the template - remove these lines *** > > I tried to use linux-kbuild-3.5 to build a driver for a Realtek card > driver but the driver won't load due to an "Exec format error". I guess > this is because kbuild is for 3.5 but the kernel version in experimental > is called 3.5-trunk. I tried to use the "mini howto" from > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2012/08/msg00390.html> but I > can't find any way to make it work with the "trunk" suffix. linux-kbuild-3.5 is fine, as it doesn't include any ABI definition. You need to install matching versions of linux-headers-3.5-trunk-<flavour> and linux-image-3.5-trunk-<flavour>. (When the package name includes 'trunk' there is no promise that the ABI won't change between different versions of the package.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus
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