Re: CVS version wouldn't compile under 2.6.7

From: Steve Sharples <sds_at_eee.nottingham.ac.uk> · Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:06:08 +0100 (BST)

Hi there,

Bizarrely enough, yesterday I was going through exactly the same process
as Daniel on a new PC. The same change was required under 2.6.8-1.521
(Fedora Core 2).

Cheers,

   Steve.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Bernd Porr wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> the thing is that the build system is changing basically from version to
> version. It's very hard to make comedi compile under all kernel
> versions. We discussed this here that basically support for 2.6.x starts
> with 2.6.6 I think because of these issues.
>
> Have you tried the newest one: 2.6.8.1?
>
> comedi with 2.6.7 compiled on my machine without any problems.
>
> You can also try out my patched kernel 2.6.8.1-comedi. It contains
> comedi already.
>
> http://www.linux-usb-daq.co.uk/driver/
>
> /Bernd
>
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> Daniel Nilsson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to build the CVS version of the comedi kernel modules under
> > kernel 2.6.7 yesterday. That didn't work so well though, I had to make
> > the following small change to the source. Seems like this patch could
> > easily make the build fail on older kernel though, but I don't have a
> > way to test that currently. Is there a more permanent solution to this
> > problem ?
> >
> > Index: as-linux.m4
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /var/cvs/comedi/m4/as-linux.m4,v
> > retrieving revision 1.7
> > diff -u -r1.7 as-linux.m4
> > --- as-linux.m4 2 Jun 2004 19:00:59 -0000       1.7
> > +++ as-linux.m4 30 Sep 2004 01:17:54 -0000
> > _at__at_ -496,7 +496,7 _at__at_
> >         LINUX_MODULE_EXT=".ko"
> >
> >         LINUX_CFLAGS="$LINUX_CFLAGS $LINUX_CFLAGS_MODULE"
> > -       LINUX_MODPOST="$LINUX_DIR/scripts/modpost"
> > +       LINUX_MODPOST="$LINUX_DIR/scripts/mod/modpost"
> >
> >         AC_SUBST(LINUX_ARCH)
> >         AC_SUBST(LINUX_AFLAGS)
> >
> > Thanks
>
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