The OVS kernel module, like other kernel modules, does not need a working
userspace build environment, but the OVS "configure" script and makefiles
don't support a kernel-only build, so "configure" fails if libc6-dev is
not installed.
It would be better to change the "configure" script and makefiles to handle
this special case, but that was more work than I initially expected it to
be.
Bug #8606.
Reported-by: Edwin Chiu <echiu@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Package: openvswitch-datapath-dkms
Architecture: all
-Depends: dkms (>= 1.95), make, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: dkms (>= 1.95), make, libc6-dev, ${misc:Depends}
Description: Open vSwitch datapath module source - DKMS version
This package provides the Open vSwitch datapath module source code
that is needed by openvswitch-switch. DKMS can built the kernel