[vbox-dev] virtualbox 5.0.22 fails to build on Ubuntu yakkety

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Gianfranco,

On Tuesday 21 June 2016 16:11:04 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi Frank
> 
> >thanks for the heads-up. In my opinion this is a bug in the Yakkety
> >
> >Linux kernel headers package (ethtool.h should include the headers it
> >depends on itself) but I applied the workaround you proposed.
> 
> not just yakkety, but every linux 4.4/4.6 I guess :)
> 
> anyway, I have a locally cloned git kernel repo, I saw it, and I saw this
> code #ifndef __KERNEL__
> #include <limits.h> /* for INT_MAX */
> #endif
> 
> of course I didn't check the yakkety source, and indeed this was a kernel
> bug and fixed in a later kernel release
> (not checking git log, made in myself the assumption that it was a
> virtualbox bug, sorry for that)
> 
> 
> 
> git tag --contains 14e2037902d65213842b4e40305ff54a64abbcb6
> v4.6
> v4.6-rc1
> v4.6-rc2
> v4.6-rc3
> v4.6-rc4
> v4.6-rc5
> v4.6-rc6
> v4.6-rc7
> v4.7-rc1
> v4.7-rc2
> v4.7-rc3
> v4.7-rc4
> 
> so, maybe you want to do something like
> if kernel <=4.6
> include
> endif
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=14
> e2037902d65213842b4e40305ff54a64abbcb6

Debian/Sid has a fix and includes <limits.h> directly in ethtool.h

I have linux-libc-dev version 4.6.2-1 installed.

Kind regards,

Frank
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