[vdr] Re: Building vdr again the new 2.6 kernel tree

[Maik Zumstrull <Maik.Zumstrull@gmx.de>]

Tilman Baumann wrote:

> Now, after i'm definitly happy with the 2.6 kernel including its dvb 
> support, i choosed to switch my complete system to 2.6.
> If i set 'DVBDIR   = /usr/src/linux' for compiling, i get many errors 
> and the whole process ends with
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/device.h:365: error: 'u32' is used as a 
> type, but
>    is not defined as a type.
> make: *** [dvbdevice.o] Error 1
> I have no idea whats wrong. And of course, don't know if my plan is 
> possible...
>
> Anybody here who did this or can say whats about?
You are (or, your compiler is) mixing 2.4 and 2.6 includes, and some of 
the 2.6 includes you're using are internal kernel headers not supposed 
to be used to compile user space apps against. (In Linux <= 2.4, user 
space kernel headers and internal kernel headers were mostly identical. 
This changed in 2.6.)

Quick 'n Dirty Fix:
Change the Makefile to "-idirafter" the 2.6 include dirs instead of 
"-I"ing them. This usually works, but is a Bad Thing(tm).

Clean solution:
Install the user space versions of the 2.6 headers. Many distribution 
already package them. In Debian, you can install the package 
"linux-kernel-headers". Afterwards, VDR should compile cleanly without 
looking at the 2.6 internal headers.



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