hverkuil: I seem to be having a build issue with installing my v4l-dvb drivers
I'm not sure if this has to do with my kernel sources (the install tells me I don't have them) but it always hangs at uvc-video.o
The build log says that it might already be a known problem but I'd like to know what to do about it. Thanks!
danielh32: the build system is currently broken for kernels < 4.10 (lack of time on my side to repair it)
Not sure if it is related to your problem.
When you say 'hang' you mean the compiler hangs at that source?
Well, no. The make command fails at that source
Also, my kernel version is 4.9.0
how does it fail? What the error?
I'll bet it is this issue: https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/46464/
See the discussion there.
Thank you. I'm trying to get a log from my terminal right now
If it means anything, its Error 2 for an unsigned integer
How would I install this .patch into my build?
You might be better off waiting a bit. I hope the media_build will be fixed for this in the coming week.
https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers
Follow the developer's approach. Apply the patch as follows:
cd media
patch -p1 <my-patch
I hope the instructions still work...
It recognizes the patch, but states that it could not find the file to patch
can't find file to patch at input line 5 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
I followed the instructions on the page regarding moving the .patch into backports and adding it to the backports.txt. We'll see what happens!
hverkuil: The make command finished!! Even setting make to use 3 processing threads still took forever (rocking a Pentium D over here) but it built fine on Linux 4.9.0