zfs dkms module attempts to build before spl

[Ben Howard]

This looks like Bug #1491729:

Steps to Repo:
1. Start clean Wily instance
2. Run "sudo apt-get install zfs-dkms"

$ sudo apt-get install zfs-dkms
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Building only for 4.2.0-25-generic
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configure: error: in `/var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.4.2/build':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.2.0-25-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.4.2/build/make.log for more information.
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configure: error:
 *** Please make sure the kmod spl devel <kernel> package for your
 *** distribution is installed then try again. If that fails you
 *** can specify the location of the spl objects with the
 *** '--with-spl-obj=PATH' option.
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.2.0-25-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/zfs/0.6.4.2/build/make.log for more information.
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root@ip-10-0-129-83:/home/ubuntu# sudo apt-get -y install zfs-dkms spl-dkms
sudo: unable to resolve host ip-10-0-129-83
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
spl-dkms is already the newest version.
spl-dkms set to manually installed.
zfs-dkms is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

It looks to me like spl just simply failed to build:

configure: error: in `/var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.4.2/build':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.2.0-25-generic