On 1/29/2011 8:36 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> followup to my earlier post, there's this: >>> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/579813 >>> >>> since i'm running a bleeding-edge kernel, vbox 4.0.2 won't build on my >>> ubuntu system as it's looking for that header file in its old >>> location. thoughts? >> >> Well, outside of fixing the code yourself (assuming you were running >> the OSE version) have you tried a symbolic to the old location to >> make it happy? > > of course that's an obvious fix, but it doesn't address the larger > issue of expecting *everyone* to be able to realize what's happened, > and manually make the same fix. i would think that the simpler > solution would be to tweak the vbox source to simply add that > generated/ directory to the include search path, so it will build for > both older and newer kernels.
In the past VirtualBox has not 'chased betas and alphas'. My guess here would be that when or if this kernel change is actually in a supported distribution release this will be corrected. -- David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
