On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:32:57PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > OVS needs to inspect the headers in the kernel source directory at build > > time. Debian keeps moving the source directory relative to the build > > directory and doesn't provide an obvious way to find the source directory, > > so in the past we've used some name-based heuristics to essentially guess > > where it is. > > > > This commit introduces a new heuristic that I hope will be more reliable: > > extracting the source directory from the Makefile in the build directory. > > In Debian's case, it looks like the Makefile generally contains a line of > > the form "MAKEARGS := -C <srcdir> O=<outdir>". This commit extracts the > > source directory from that line. > > > > To avoid regressions this commit retains the older heuristics as fallbacks. > > > > CC: 659...@bugs.debian.org > > Reported-by: Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> > > It seems OK to me.
Thanks. Pushed to master and branch-1.[2345]. > How do other packages solve this problem? It > seems like we have a particularly bad time. I've been unable to locate other modules that do this kind of thing. I looked at virtualbox, the nvidia drivers, ndiswrapper, xtables-addons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
