Re: Compiling Comedi with Fedora Core 3

From: R Leao <richardson.leao_at_anu.edu.au> · Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:44:58 +1100

did you try comedi 70? because I had some similar problems before but 
now it compiled fine.

On 12/01/2006, at 9:21 AM, Stephanie Ann Wissel wrote:

>  I'm trying to compile comedi on my fedora core 3 machine using a 
> vanilla
>  2.6.11 kernel that I downloaded from kernel.org, so that I can use the
>  ni_pci_dio driver for my NI DIO 96 board.
>
>  I've tried two different versions of comedi (0.7.69 and 0.7.59).  The 
> older
>  (0.7.59) version, I tried because the fixes in the redhat-notes 
> document for
>  redhat kernels applied to that release, although it gave me a large 
> amount of
>  errors when I run make (after make config, make clean and make dep run
>  fine).  The errors all came from comedi_fops.c, starting with:
>
>  /usr/src/linux/include/kdev_t.h:21: error: syntax error before "dev".
>
>  When making the newer (0.7.69) version quits on the following error:
>
>  drivers.c: In function 'uvirt_to_kva':
>  drivers.c:398: error: request for member 'pgd' in something not a 
> structure
>  or union
>  make[3]:***[comedi_ko-drivers.o] Error 1
>
>  I downloaded both versions from the ftp site.  I tried attaching log
>  files with all of the compilation errors to an earlier message, but I
>  don't think it got posted.
>
>  Any suggestions as to how to install either release (although
>  preferrably 0.7.69 or newer) would be great.  I'm a newbie to kernel
>  compilation and linux device drivers.
>
>  ~Steph
>
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