On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, David wrote: > 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.
this is not "chasing" alphas or betas -- that change of location goes back to dec of 2009: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69431/ why it's never been an issue until now is a mystery. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
