RE: newbie build question - errors building against 2.6.15.6

OK - now I really feel "newbie-ish" (and stupid).  I went to the CVS site, downloaded the comedi.tar.gz file, unpacked it into the
comedi-0.7.70 directory.  I ran autogen.sh, but I still get the same errors when trying to build.  Obviously I'm missing the point
somewhere!

Would anyone be so kind as to help a poor newbie with a few simple steps on how to get the CVS version to build?  Is there a HOWTO
somewhere? 

Any help is greatly appreciated!

-bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Abbott [mailto:abbotti_at_mev.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 6:17 AM
> To: Bill Christie
> Cc: comedi_at_comedi.org
> Subject: Re: newbie build question - errors building against 2.6.15.6
> 
> On 22/03/2006 18:03, Bill Christie wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > Here the background:
> >
> > 1) The base distro is VectorLinux 5.1 (distro uses 2.6.12)
> >
> > 2) Installed plain vanilla 2.6.15.6 kernel from kernel.org
> >
> > 3) Patched kernel with RTAI-3.3 patch
> > (/base/arch/i386/patches/hal-linux-2.6.15-i386-1.2-00.patch)
> >
> > 4) Kernel builds ok, RTAI builds ok, and comedilib builds ok
> >
> > . but I get the following errors when trying to build comedi-0.7.70:
> 
> (snip errors)
> 
> > Am I missing a patch? Is there some intermediate step I missed?
> 
> I think comedi-0.7.70 only supports up to kernel 2.6.10 (possibly 2.6.11
> - memory fails).  The CVS version currently supports up to kernel
> 2.6.15.x.  The Linux kernel API keeps changing with each release and the
> Comedi drivers have to change to keep up with it (with various hacks to
> remain compatible with earlier 2.6.x and 2.4.x kernels).
> 
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