mythtv at jonandtina
Nov 30, 2004, 9:39 AM
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Rob Rosenfeld wrote:
> Jonathan Markevich wrote:
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>> I'm having a really tough time building lirc on 2.6.9. I was unable
>> to run both my wireless network card and bttv on any other kernel so
>> far. Now I've conquered those, I can't rebuild lirc -- and more
>> importantly, the ledxmit modules to power my ESR JetEye...
>>
>> I tried checking out the CVS version but it won't build. I think my
>> (formerly KnoppMyth R4V5) system is still set up to look at
>> 2.4.25-chw kernel includes...
>>
>> The build starts its failure by complaining it can't find
>> linux/version.h, then goes on to other include files...
>>
>> From what I understand, I'm not to touch /usr/include, ever. I have
>> kernel source that matches my running kernel installed in /usr/src,
>> and I also have kernel headers available there, but the "linux"
>> symlink is pointing to the full source (I think I'm supposed to do
>> that).
>>
>> What else do I need to do to get this compiled?
>>
> You need to have kernel source and (on 2.6 kernels) have run a make
> far enough to generate version.h. Check out
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/x419.html
Eureka! That was it, exactly. Actually I needed it to generate all of
the scripts/ files. How unobvious. You'd think I'd never compiled
anything before... I checked out tons of references but would never have
thought to look for that.
Thanks so much!! I'm very relieved.
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