Re: Comedi compilation problems on Fedora Core 5 SMP (2.6.15-1.2054_F C5smp)

On 19/05/06 14:27, Simpson, John wrote:
> I am having the same problems compiling comedi-0.7.70 on FC5 as another
> recent contributor.  I've tried all the various remedies and patches (bugs
> 221 and 222) that seemed to resolve his problems, but I just get the same
> make failures.

comedi-0.7.70 is too old for newer kernels.  The kernel API has changed
a lot since then.  The current comedi CVS version builds okay for
vanilla 2.6.15 kernels, but fails to build for Fedora's 2.6.15 kernel
due to kernel API changes for PCMCIA and USB drivers.  There is a patch
to support Fedora's 2.6.15 kernel and the vanilla 2.6.16 kernel here:

<https://bugzilla.comedi.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=156>

The patch might get committed to CVS one day, but one of its tests for
Fedora nastiness is pretty ugly, so we'll see.

> I've tried --enable-kbuild, it's just the same.

The --enable-kbuild option is not supported by comedi-0.7.70.

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