[saucy] fglrx fails to build against linux 3.9.0 (missing version.h)

[Martin Pitt]

As detected by ubuntu-driver-common's autopkgtest [1], current fglrx fails to build on saucy.

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$ cat /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/9.010/build/make.logDKMS make.log for fglrx-9.010 for kernel 3.9.0-2-generic (x86_64)
Wed May 29 06:19:36 UTC 2013
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
kernel includes at /lib/modules/3.9.0-2-generic/build/include not found or incomplete
file: /lib/modules/3.9.0-2-generic/build/include/linux/version.h
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/lib/modules/3.9.0-2-generic/build/include/linux/ exists, but there is no "version.h" in there. linux-headers-3.9.0-2 and linux-headers-3.9.0-2-generic are both installed.

Other DKMS modules like bcmwl or nvidia work, so it seems there isn't something generally broken with DKMS. If version.h is supposed to exist, but was forgotten to be installed by the kernel, please reassign to linux.

Thank you!

[1] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Saucy/view/AutoPkgTest/job/saucy-adt-ubuntu-drivers-common/13/ARCH=amd64,label=adt/

[dino99 (9d9)]

Only to catch your attention (does not know if dkms has to be blamed), i got that one also, that seems close:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lttng-modules/+bug/1185253

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

dino99, bug 1185253 seems unrelated to me. That doesn't fail because of a missing version.h, that just simply needs porting to 3.9.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Perry (jjperry)]

I am affected as well with 13.10 (Daily - installed yesterday) while trying to install fglrx-updates.

I remember the same issue happening with earlier versions of Ubuntu (perhaps 12.04).

A workaround is to run (adjust paths accordingly)

ln -s /lib/modules/3.9.0/build/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /lib/modules/3.9.0/build/include/linux/version.h

which allows to complete the compilation.

[John Perry (jjperry)]

Related discussion on ubuntuforums.org,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2126285

Sadly they closed the thread as if the issue does not occur in saucy.

[John Perry (jjperry)]

More information about the workaround and a patch,
http://henryhermawan.blogspot.gr/2013/03/amd-catalyst-patch-for-kernel-38x.html

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 859101, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is not a duplicate. Bug 859101 appeared in oneiric already and is about a completely different issue in the fglrx sources.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fglrx-installer - 2:9.010-0ubuntu4

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fglrx-installer (2:9.010-0ubuntu4) saucy; urgency=low

  * debian/dkms.conf.in:
    - Add support for Linux 3.9 (LP: #1185285).
 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:02:58 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fglrx-installer-updates - 2:9.012-0ubuntu2

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fglrx-installer-updates (2:9.012-0ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * debian/dkms.conf.in:
      - Add support for Linux 3.9 (LP: #1185285).
 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:11:35 +0200