[mythtv-users] Gentoo not building lirc_i2c?

Timo Boettcher spida at gmx.net
Sun Nov 27 05:49:38 EST 2005


Hi,

* Steve <stgarf at gmail.com>, Sunday, November 27, 2005, 9:59:55 AM:

> Because one the the symbols in the lirc code was deprecated once you upgrade
> to the 2.6.13.x or higher kernel, which is the kernel I'm assuming you have,
> lirc will no longer compile without patching lirc_i2c.c. These are the steps
> to do this:
> 1) # emerge lirc
> 2) When portage has downloaded the source and FINISHES UNPACKING THE SOURCE
>    press ctrl+x.
> 3) Save the following to a file called lirc_patch.diff:
> 4) # patch
> 5) # emerge lirc

Do it the gentoo way and put the ebuild from
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111820 in your portageoverlay.

 Timo



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