[mythtv-users] make error

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/21/06, Harry Lipkind <hil at hiltech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Going back many years I have written software, built software systems,
> etc.  All my work was in Fortran with some custom assembly language
> modules where I needed capabilities that Fortran didn't have.  I don't
> know "C" or "C++".
>
> I am trying to build the ivtv module for 2.6.16.  I pulled in the
> compressed module, unpacked it, and read the instructions.  When I try
> to run 'make' the system complains about errors on two lines which I
> beleive are 490 and 493.  The error text is:
>
>   driver ivti-osd.c  error - expected ) before string constant.
>
> I looked at the text in vi and the parenthteses are balanced on those
> lines.  They read as:
>
> MODULE_PARM(ivtv_fb_card_id, "i");
> MODULE_PARM(osd_init, "i");
>
> I understand that utilities can loose line count - can someone help me
> figure out where the problem is?
>
> Thank you
>
> Harry Lipkind
>
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I am not sure what version of ivtv you are trying to load but you may want
to try going back one version and see if you have any luck before burning a
lot of time on it.

Alllan
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