[vbox-dev] VirtualBox 6.1.97 r138981 for Linux 64-bit fails to build module on Ubuntu MATE 20.04

[Frank Batschulat]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:09:55 +0200, Frank Batschulat  
<frank.batschulat at oracle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:09:52 +0200, Jags Desai <jags.desai at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> VirtualBox 6.1.97 r138981 for Linux 64-bit fails to build module on  
>> Ubuntu
>> MATE 20.04
>>
>> Attaching vbox install and setup logs.
>>
>> Previous development version VirtualBox-6.1.97-138534-Linux_amd64 is
>> working just fine.
>
> Yeah, I could reproduce the failure with the stock Ubuntu 20.04 kernel
> and all the tools installed as well which then shows a slightly different
> failure during build. Since r138534 is a bit older, I also
> did build a .run installer for the current head r138981 and that one
> fails still also during compiling the main vboxdrv while doing
> something in the kernel source tree.
>
> We'll look into it.

Ah yes, this is the SUBDIRS= vrs. M= makefile issue on Linux systems  
running kernel versions >= 5.4
we just recently fixed with r139105. We'll soon publish new testbuilds.

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frankB

Oracle Virtualbox Development