[mythtv-users] Building lirc on 2.6.9

[Rob Rosenfeld]

Jonathan Markevich wrote:

> 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