Bug#534867: [linux-headers-2.6.30-1-686] Missed headers

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:42:05AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> severity 534867 wishlist
> tags 534867 wontfix
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:52:35AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > I've reopened this bug because I've just been stung by it myself.  The
> > > issue seems to be not so much that the package I'm trying to build
> > > (nvidia graphics module, see http://bugs.debian.org/510961) is using
> > > references to linux/* rather than asm/*, but rather that it doesn't
> > > know about the linux-headers-*-common directory.
> 
> It doesn't need to. However it _must_ use Kbuild to get the correct
> include paths.

Please see http://bugs.debian.org/540838

nvidia uses Kbuild, but for some reason fails miserably.  I really
don't understand why or what's actually going on; it builds fine in a
complete source tree, apparently, and it builds fine if symlinks are
included.

   Julian