On 1/29/2011 1:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.


I see. That I did not know. Is this kernel, or any of the others with
this shift, actually in any distribution? Or have 'they' moved it or
linked it? I ask because all the way through the current kernel in
Fedora 15 (Rawhide) I do not see this. However the Xorg that is there
does not work currently with Vbox 4.0.x Guest additions.

You do know of the Forum? I have had better luck with technical
questions such as this there than here. The Bugzilla which you
mentioned, also works well.
-- 

  David

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