Comment # 8 on bug 1047215 from Larry Finger

(In reply to Andreas Stieger from comment #7)
> Yeah I do not think we can fix that for a third party package. Also we ship
> a working VirtualBox 5.1.22.
> 
> Slightly better autoconf magic may replace the pure version number
> comparison that the code seems to be doing.

I would not expect Oracle to handle any breakage caused by backporting of
kernel features that break the API/version correspondence. I am interested in
the "autoconf magic" mentioned above. Please elaborate.