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

[Onno Kreuzinger <onnok@web.de>]

Hi,

Tilman Baumann schrieb:
> Sorry a bit late, but i only get time to test it yet.
>
> Maik Zumstrull wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > > [...] 
> >
> > 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).
>
> I would be disposed to do it bad. The main thing is, it works ;)
>
> But unfortunately, I don't understand what you mean. Or how do i have to 
> do it.
>
> Sadly, i have no clue about Makefiles and compilerflags.
>
> > 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.
>
> I build the headers with make-kpkg kernel_headers and installed those.
> Then, i set DVBDIR to /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.0-test9
>
> But, it also does not work. I think make-kpkg is not able to seperate 
> the userspaceheaders from the kernelspaceheaders.
>
> Where is the path to the userspaceheaders in my kernelsource. There must 
> be one?
>
> Then, it should be no problem to -I these headers...
>
>
> Thank you
after not finding good info on the include stuff, i set DVBDIR to
DVBDIR   = /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test9/include/dvb

this works, makes few warnings, gives no errors, and a good picture :)

but i know there are cleaner ways.

Regards Onno



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