Re: newbie build question - errors building against 2.6.15.6

I have the same thing with 2.6.15.1 :(

On 3/22/06, Bill Christie <b.christie_at_linkeng.com> wrote:
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>  Please excuse this if it's been answered before, but I can't seem to get
> past the build errors (see below) while trying to build comedi-0.7.70
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> Here the background:
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> 1) The base distro is VectorLinux 5.1 (distro uses 2.6.12)
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> 2) Installed plain vanilla 2.6.15.6 kernel from kernel.org
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> 3) Patched kernel with RTAI-3.3 patch (/base/arch/i386/patches/hal-
> linux-2.6.15-i386-1.2-00.patch)
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> 4) Kernel builds ok, RTAI builds ok, and comedilib builds ok
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> … but I get the following errors when trying to build comedi-0.7.70:
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> [root_at_vl51~/downloads/comedi-0.7.70]# make
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> make  all-recursive
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> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/downloads/comedi-0.7.70'
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> Making all in comedi
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> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/downloads/comedi-0.7.70/comedi'
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> Making all in .
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> make[3]: Entering directory `/root/downloads/comedi-0.7.70/comedi'
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> if gcc -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..    -I../include/
> -DKBUILD_MODNAME=comedi -DKBUILD_BASENAME=comedi_fops -Wall -Wundef
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
> -ffreestanding -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msoft-float
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium4
> -I/root/downloads/linux-2.6.15.6/include/asm-i386/mach-default-D__KERNEL__ -I/root/downloads/linux-
> 2.6.15.6/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -DMODULE   -g -O2 -MT
> comedi_ko-comedi_fops.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/comedi_ko-comedi_fops.Tpo" -c -o
> comedi_ko-comedi_fops.o `test -f 'comedi_fops.c' || echo './'`comedi_fops.c;
> \
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> then mv -f ".deps/comedi_ko-comedi_fops.Tpo"
> ".deps/comedi_ko-comedi_fops.Po"; else rm -f
> ".deps/comedi_ko-comedi_fops.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
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> <command line>:138332986:52096: include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or
> directory
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> comedi_fops.c: In function `comedi_init':
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> comedi_fops.c:1798: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `class_simple_create'
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> comedi_fops.c:1798: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without
> a cast
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> comedi_fops.c:1808: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `class_simple_destroy'
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> comedi_fops.c:1826: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `class_simple_device_add'
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> comedi_fops.c: In function `comedi_cleanup':
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> comedi_fops.c:1843: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `class_simple_device_remove'
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> make[3]: *** [comedi_ko-comedi_fops.o] Error 1
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> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/downloads/comedi-0.7.70/comedi'
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> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/downloads/comedi-0.7.70/comedi'
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> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/downloads/comedi-0.7.70'
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> make: *** [all] Error 2
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> Am I missing a patch? Is there some intermediate step I missed?
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> Thanks for any help!
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> -bill
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