Re: newbie build question - errors building against 2.6.15.6

From: Steven Hartmann <shartmann_at_militho.com> · Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:02:17 -0600

Try the --enable-kbuild flag

Just FYI, at the comedi.org site, somewhere there is the mailing list archive.  
All of these questions have been asked and answered many times before, so you 
could save yourself some time......

On Friday 24 March 2006 8:09 am, Bill Christie wrote:
> 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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Best regards,

Steve Hartmann