Re: KBUILD_BASENAME hoses nvidia driver / vmware build processes

[Matti Aarnio]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:08:30PM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    Just an FYI -- I just grabbed 2.6.16 and installed it without a
> problem.  However, when I went to rebuild the nvidia module and vmware
> modules, I discovered that the lack of a definition for
> KBUILD_BASENAME in linux/include/linux/spinlock.h cause these
> components' builds to fail.  I added a stupid workaround and was able
> to build and install these components, but I wanted to bring this to
> your attention.

Do post the note to Nvidia -- they need small fix in  conftest.sh
then things work mostly, but  I am not 100% sure that things do
work with 2.6.16  (this issue was with  nvsound   module, I think.)

>   Best wishes,
>   ---S

/Matti Aarnio
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