[mythtv-users] Mandrake 9.1 LIRC headaches

[Mark]

Every time I've tried a vanilla kernel on mandrake, all kinds of stuff 
got broken.  

Mark Edwards wrote:

>I'd start with a fresh .22 from www.kernel.org if I were you...
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>From: "Mark" <fairlane at voyager.net>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:24 PM
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Mandrake 9.1 LIRC headaches
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>>UGH!!!
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>>I have been trying all night to get a custom kernel compiled for a new
>>version
>>of LIRC, and I am getting nowhere.  I know MDK9.1 LIRC is broken, so
>>I was trying to recompile the kernel with serial port modularized before I
>>install the new LIRC, and I can't get the dumb kernel compiled!  It keeps
>>failing on make dep with an Error 2, it can't find some file related to
>>LIRC.
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>>Below is a note I sent to the mandrake list:  anyone see any problems?
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>>Running MDK9.1.  Having a lot of problems recompiling.
>>I need to recompile to get LIRC running, before anybody asks why
>>I need to recompile...
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>>Steps I've taken so far:
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>>cd /usr/src/linux as root
>>make mrproper
>>make menuconfig
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>>switch the character devices setting under 16550 UART from built-in to
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>Module
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>>Save the config file
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>>make dep, which gives a bunch of stuff then
>>some errors about missing files and directories that used to exist for
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>LIRC,
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>>OK, I removed them until the new LIRC source is downloaded.
>>Last line is make: *** [dep-files] Error 2
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>>Then, I run make clean, runs ok.
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>>Then, I run make bzImage, which runs for a couple seconds, then enters
>>/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-13mdk/kernel, says No rule to make target
>>modversions.h, needed by sched.o.  Stop.
>>Error 2.
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>>And that's it.
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>>Thanks,
>>Mark
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