[linux-dvb] Re: help: compliation problems (Nova-T on redhat 9)

[John Pullan <jmp@tarantella.com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 21:40, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> John Pullan wrote:
<snip>
> 
> are you using a RedHat system? If so please fetch a fresh kernel from 
> http://www.kernel.org/, configure+build it and then build the DVB driver 
> again. The kernels delivered with a Redhat distribution are heavily 
> patched so that the version checks in the compatiblity workaround code fail.
> 
> As alternative you also might to try these issues manually, you'll have 
> to adjust the version defines in compat.h so that the execute code 
> matches the code in your kernel includes. But this is tricky and will 
> cause some troubles if you are not experienced, so better fetch+install 
> a clean+fresh kernel without proprietary patches.
> 
> Holger

Thanks for the prompt help :-)

I went with Petri's solution (delete compat.h) for now and it seems to
work. I'll do the job properly once I've got access to a fat pipe.
(Can't face downloading the kernel source over a modem)

Cheers


-- 
John Pullan <jmp@tarantella.com>



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