Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#12735 closed defect (worksforme)
Make guest additions find version.h on Linux >= 3.7 as well
| Reported by: | Fate | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.8 |
| Keywords: | guest additions uapi linux headers | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | all |
Description
Compiling guest additions on Linux guests with newer kernel versions (>= 3.7 I think) fails due to the introduction of the uapi stuff (http://lwn.net/Articles/519762/):
# head -n1 /var/log/vboxadd-install.log: grep: /lib/modules/3.12.10-2-default/build/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
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Change History (4)
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | VBox-uapi_version_h.diff added |
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comment:1 by , 11 years ago
The new location of version.h is indeed not properly detected but how does the compilation fail for your guest? The vboxadd-install.log contains the error message from grep that version.h could not be found but this test is only used to differ between Linux 2.4 and 2.6 while Linux 2.6 is default. So again, does the compilation really fail for your guest? If so, please attach the complete vboxadd-install.log file to this ticket.
Detect correct location of version.h with newer Linux kernels