Nvidia 319.12 fail to build nvidia module against 3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64.
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/make.log
DKMS make.log for nvidia-319.12 for kernel 3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64 (x86_64)
Wed Apr 10 12:45:47 BST 2013
make: Entering directory `/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build'
make -C /lib/modules/3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64/build M=`/bin/pwd` modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64'
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv.o
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:10:0,
from include/linux/sched.h:15,
from include/linux/utsname.h:5,
from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv-linux.h:46,
from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv.c:13:
include/linux/bitops.h: In function ‘hweight_long’:
include/linux/bitops.h:66:41: warning: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression [-Wsign-compare]
In file included from /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:552:0,
from include/linux/poll.h:11,
from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv-linux.h:117,
from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv.c:13:
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h: In function ‘copy_from_user’:
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:62:6: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv.c: At top level:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv.c:37:30: fatal error: conftest/patches.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build/nv.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-6.towo-siduction-amd64'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/319.12/build'
Again I'm not worried about my machine; this is solely a warning to others.