Re: Update to Sid, and cannot compile Nvidia module; PIC mode?

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 10/28/2016 08:11 PM, Dirk Laebisch wrote:
> > Anyone else run into this on Sid very recently?  Any hints or pointers?
>
> Yup.
> Providing some compile flags in:
> /usr/src/linux/Makefile
> around line 614 fixed it for me.
>
>  614 # force no-pie for distro compilers that enable pie by default
>  615 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-pie)
>  616 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -no-pie)
>  617 KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-pie)
>  618 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-pie)
>
> After that, dkms succeeded and no further problems ... so far.
>
> Regards
> Dirk

Hi Dirk, what driver is that?  I have eight systems here using 304 and 
I'm having to use the Debian packages and then downgrade to 
jessie-backports works for me because the package from Nvidia would not 
install the module.

Maybe you can give a step by step?

Thanks for the info,
--
Jimmy Johnson

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