[OpenAFS-devel] dkms install Error

[Dressel, Michael]

I hope I got this right:

linux 7.0.5.arch1-1:   (flagged out of date)
CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=160101
CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (GCC) 16.1.1 20260430"

gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 16.1.1 20260430




----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cheyenne Wills" <cwills@sinenomine.net>
> To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 May, 2026 16:22:05
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] dkms install Error

> Can you check to see if the current compiler version matches the
> version that the kernel was built with?  If they are different, the
> builds kernel modules can fail.  The specific error you are seeing is
> within the configure step of the OpenAFS build process where configure
> is trying to determine how to pass compiler flags to the Linux build
> process.
> 
> The .config file for the Linux kernel contains the compiler version
> Compare the the CONFIG_GCC_VERSION_TEXT and CONFIG_GCC_VERSION values
> with the output of a gcc --version to see if they are different.
> 
> If they do match up, then a deeper dive into the logs from the build
> will be needed, and I can give a hand in looking through those.
> 
> There are some patches to the configure tests that report the compiler
> version that was used in the kernel build.  They are in master
> but haven't been pulled up into the stable release (due to the scope
> and size of the changes).
> 
> --
> Cheyenne Wills
> cwills@sinenomine.net
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 May 2026 08:35:29 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael Dressel <michael.dressel@desy.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> I get the following error, when installing on archlinux:
>> 
>> 
>> dkms install --no-depmod openafs/1.8.16pre1 -k 7.0.5-arch1-1
>> 
>> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 7.0.5-arch1-1
>> (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/openafs/1.8.16pre1/build/make.log for
>> more information.
>> 
>> 
>> Checking how to set cflags for linux kbuild... configure: error:
>> cannot find way to set linux kbuild cflags
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
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