[mythtv] Compile problem with DVB in latest code

[Kenneth Aafløy]

Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> > > I have just updated to latest cvs and spotted the change
> > > to the include paths.  However, make gives me the
> > > following error. If I comment out the DVB stuff in
> > > settings.pro then it all compiles correctly.  I'm having
> > > difficulty following through to see why though?
> > >
> > > Can anyone please help translate this...?
> > >
> > > -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.1-rc1-mm2/include 
> >
> > Your trying to compile against the linux-2.6 sources, this
> > is known not to work. Download the linuxtv-1.0.1 package
> > and compile against that, and your set.
> 
> Actually, have just tried this and it doesn't appear to be a 
> 2.6 problem at all. ie if I copy just the relevant headers out
> of my 2.6 tree into a sub dir somewhere, then change the include
> line to match it all compiles fine.  I guess that something else
> in the /usr/src/linux/include tree is being picked up accidently
> and causing problems
>
> Not sure what to suggest though.  I guess you changed this so 
> that it is possible to install the headers into /usr/include whilst
> keeping the normal tree?  I might just do this myself (like the gentoo
> package does), and live with that

For one, the linux dvb api is well defined, and have not changed in
a long time, so compiling a dvb application against a earlier
release and using a newer release is not a problem.

Notice that I said compiling against the linux-2.6 kernel is not
supported (not the dvb driver includes in there).

For more information and the reason why:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html

Kenneth