[mythtv-users] Building lirc on 2.6.9

[Jonathan Markevich]

Rob Rosenfeld wrote:

> 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


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.