[mythtv-users] can't compile lirc w/ fedora core 2

[Tom Lee]

I realize this is a question for the lirc list -- I've posted there, too.  But that list tends to be more technical and less results-oriented than this one, in my experience, so I thought I would post here as well.

I'm trying to compile lirc on a fresh install of Fedora Core 2.  I'm using a homebrew serial port IR receiver.  I know that the hardware will work -- this box used to host a working RH9 install of mythtv, but I decided to start fresh with a larger hard drive since myth was freezing periodically.

The install (according to the guide at mythtv.org) goes fine until I get to lirc.  When I compile, I get:

> Makefile:378: /usr/src/linux//Rules.make: No such file or directory

/usr/src/linux is a symlink to the appropriate directory.  My kernel is 2.6.5-1.358.  From what I've read, other people experience this problem as well.  There seem to be two solutions: a potentially buggy patch from a guy named FlameEyes on the lirc list -- he doesn't seem to have a 2.6 patch, though, and I, being not very sophisticated w/ linux, wouldn't know how to apply it anyway.  

The other option seems to be recompiling my kernel, as the 'make dep' step is supposed to provide the Rules.make file (I may be wrong about this, though).  However, when I run make dep on my current kernel's source I get "*** Warning: make dep is unnecessary now."  I'd just start with a fresh kernel, tuned for myth, but Axel of ATrpms doesn't maintain any kernel releases for FC2 (yet).  So I'm not sure what version I should be pursuing, or which will work properly with FC2.

I apologize for my linux idiocy, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
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