[mythtv-users] Missing header files LIRC on FC4

Luke lukes790 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 12:49:18 UTC 2006


On 18/01/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Luke wrote:
>
> I have a situation here, while trying to compile and install lirc from
> source on FC4.
>
>
>    - I have downloaded the latest kernel source for FC4 and it's
>    installed at:
>      /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel- 2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/
>    - I made a symbolic link like so:
>    ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14
>    /usr/src/linux
>    - running the script ./configure for lirc is successful
>    - the make command generate errors, the first of which is:
>    error: ../drivers/media/video/bttv.h: No such file or directory
>    Further errors below that are probably due to the missing bttv.h and
>    similar files.
>
>
> I know the so-called missing header files exist at
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/drivers/media/video/* . Where
> is make looking for the header files. This looks straight forward but, I
> am lost. Any ideas?
>
>
> Well "make" is certainly not looking *there*, that's for sure. On my old
> FC3 system bttv.h is located in /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/
>
> Where /usr/src/linux is a link to the proper kernel tree, as your's is.
>
> You could simply move the file to that place, but I'm betting that would
> just cause a different error a little later when it failed to find the next
> header that it wants.
>
> You could also make a link from the actual location of the "drivers" to
> the similar position in the actual kernel tree, might work but it's
> hackneyed.
>
> You could also look at the output of "configure" and see where it *thinks*
> the headers are located, and either point it to the correct place or link
> that place to the actual location.
>
> Of course, with recent kernel changes, the bttv.h file you have might not
> be usable or correct for the version of LIRC that you have :-)
>
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It appears this is a kernel 2.6.14. Since this is so new, there is no patch
for it yet from lirc.org. Maybe I should wait for a patch.
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