[mythtv-users] make error
Perry Gilfillan
perrye at gilfillan.org
Mon May 22 03:23:12 UTC 2006
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
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