[mythtv-users] make error

[Perry Gilfillan]

Allan Wilson wrote:
> On 5/21/06, *Harry Lipkind* <hil at hiltech.com <mailto: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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>   
You might try lint or splint [ http://www.splint.org/ ]

Cheers,

Perry