Re: virtualbox-dkms fails to build with 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 kernel

[Nick <debian-backports@njw.me.uk>]

Quoth Daniel Pocock:
> On 12/03/14 21:24, Vincent Cheng wrote: 
> > Building virtualbox's BIOS as of >= 4.2 requires the use of a compiler
> > that's not DFSG-free (and shipping with EFI support only in the vbox
> > packages was determined to be a bad idea by the maintainer), hence the
> > move to contrib. See bug #691148 for details.

Aw, that was a really stupid move on the Oracle peoples' part to 
require a nonfree compiler. That company...

> I was able to patch the modules from wheezy/main to work with newer
> kernels, details in the bug tracker

I can't find where you mean in the bug tracker, can you provide more 
information (or a bug number) please?

Thanks.

Nick