0.6.3 spl+zfs kernel modules fail to build in wheezy with backported 3.14 kernel

[zenny]

UPDATE 0: Also tried with the zfs wheezy-daily repo with the same compilation problem!
UPDATE 1: Downgraded the kernel to 3.10.11 and the problem persists. Hmmmm...

Tried to install using the zfs debian repo on the backported 3.14 kernel in Debian wheezy. It fails with:

Building only for 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64
Building initial module for 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64
configure: error: in /var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.3/build': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Seeconfig.log' for more details
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.3/build/make.log for more information."

gcc --version

gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."

cat /var/lib/dkms/spl/0.6.3/build/make.log

DKMS make.log for spl-0.6.3 for kernel 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (x86_64)
Mon Aug 11 15:58:22 GMT 2014
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."

Same as above error with zfs-dkms.

Also tried to symlink with no go:

ln -s /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source

uname -r

3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64

dpkg -l spl zfs | grep ^i

ii debian-zfs 7wheezy amd64 Native ZFS filesystem metapackage for Debian.
ii libzfs2 0.6.3-1wheezy amd64 Native ZFS filesystem library for Linux
ii nocatsplash 0.92-4 amd64 gateway daemon for open public network
ii spl 0.6.3-7wheezy amd64 Solaris Porting Layer user-space utilities for Linux
ii spl-dkms 0.6.3-7wheezy all Solaris Porting Layer kernel modules for Linux
ii zfs-dkms 0.6.3-1wheezy all Native ZFS filesystem kernel modules for Linux
ii zfsonlinux 2wheezy all archive.zfsonlinux.org trust package
ii zfsutils 0.6.3-1~wheezy amd64 command-line tools to manage ZFS filesystems

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zfsonlinux.list

deb http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/debian wheezy main

deb-src http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/debian wheezy main contrib

[FransUrbo]

This belong to https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Also tried to symlink with no go:

Why? What was it with the configure error that wasn't clear?

Please move this to pkg-zfs. And give me the output of:

dpkg -l dkms gcc\* make build-essential dpkg-dev coreutils

[rabisuz]

FYI: I've had the exact same error when I was missing the SPL DKMS module. The fix was easy: remove zfs-dkms and spl-dkms and reinstall debian-zfs.

[DennisBirkholz]

I had the same problem. The debian-zfs package should have dependencies to build-essentials, linux-source and linux-headers to avoid this misleading error message.

[FransUrbo]

They (spl-dkms and zfs-dkms) both depends on dkms which depends on the relevant parts:

Package: dkms
Depends: module-init-tools, gcc, make | build-essential | dpkg-dev, coreutils (>= 7.4), patch
Recommends: fakeroot, menu | sudo, linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 | linux-headers-generic | linux-headers, linux-image

[DennisBirkholz]

@FransUrbo that is odd, I had to pull in build-essentials myself. Also linux-headers seems not to be optional, it is required to build the modules. I will try to reproduce that (will take some days). Maybe dkms has missing dependencies.

[behlendorf]

Closing, packaging for Debian is now handled by Debian.