Changeset 65874 in vbox for trunk/configure

Timestamp:

Feb 24, 2017 10:40:50 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

113650

Message:

configure: don't compile the host/guest kernel modules as part of the normal build process if we detect Linux 4.9 or later

File:

• trunk/configure (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/configure

@@ -1921 +1921 @@
   else
     if test_execute; then
-      cnf_append "VBOX_LINUX_SRC" "`cd $LINUX ; pwd`"
-    fi
-  fi
-}
-
+      cat > $ODIR.tmp_src.c << EOF
+#include <linux/version.h>
+int printf(const char *format, ...);
+int main(void)
+{
+  return LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(4,8,0) ? 1 : 0;
+}
+EOF
+      echo "compiling the following source file:" >> $LOG
+      cat $ODIR.tmp_src.c >> $LOG
+      echo "using the following command line:" >> $LOG
+      echo "$CC -O -Wall -o $ODIR.tmp_out $ODIR.tmp_src.c -nostdinc -I$LINUX/include " \
+          "-I$LINUX/include/generated/uapi" >> $LOG
+      $CC -O -Wall -o $ODIR.tmp_out $ODIR.tmp_src.c -nostdinc -I$LINUX/include \
+          -I$LINUX/include/generated/uapi >> $LOG 2>&1
+      if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+        $ODIR.tmp_out
+        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+          cnf_append "VBOX_WITH_VBOXDRV" ""
+          cnf_append "VBOX_WITH_ADDITION_DRIVERS" ""
+          echo "Detected Linux >= 4.8 -- disabling compiling of Linux kernel modules."
+        else
+          cnf_append "VBOX_LINUX_SRC" "`cd $LINUX ; pwd`"
+        fi
+      fi
+    fi
+  fi
+}
 
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