Bug 34310 – lirc fails on kernel 2.6

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vlad Berditchevskiy 2003-11-24 18:22:54 UTC]

make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.0_pre2/work/lirc-0.7.0pre2/drivers/lirc_dev'
Makefile:382: /usr/src/linux//Rules.make: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux//Rules.make'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.0_pre2/work/lirc-0.7.0pre2/drivers/lirc_dev'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.0_pre2/work/lirc-0.7.0pre2/drivers'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.0_pre2/work/lirc-0.7.0pre2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
 
!!! ERROR: app-misc/lirc-0.7.0_pre2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 88, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)


A patch is available here (did not try it yet):
http://lwn.net/Articles/42217/

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 01:40:22 UTC]

Last version bump...

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 06:59:30 UTC]

but you have to apply this patch to the kernel, not to lirc

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 10:12:31 UTC]

i added a warning about it to the 0.7_pre2 ebuild

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 11:06:36 UTC]

so x86-kernel team has to apply it

[Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 12:14:33 UTC]

please add this into gentoo-sources-2.6.x

[Comment 6 Vlad Berditchevskiy 2003-11-25 16:11:54 UTC]

It seems to me that this patch addresses other issues. The first problem one encounters while trying to compile lirc ist that it looks for the file named Rules.make in /usr/src/linux, however there is no such file in kernel 2.6 and the patch doesn't create it either.

Did anyone succeed in installing lirc on kernel 2.6?

[Comment 7 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 23:19:33 UTC]

I have it running on 2.6-test8, you have to build lirc with no devices, just the tools. A patch for test10 is included in the following archive:

http://warder.ath.cx:81/projects/patch-2.6.0-test10-LNX.tar.gz

[Comment 8 kwant 2003-12-10 11:50:50 UTC]

Patch works fine, I'm able to compile necessary module: lirc_gpio. In this way, however, it's only a tool without any driveres. So... in my case it's useless. I need avermedia98 driver. Is there any way to compile lirc with avermedia98 driver in combination with kernel 2.6.0?

Kwant!

[Comment 9 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-01-08 08:52:54 UTC]

appologies  any apparent niglect of this bug but because lirc was being included into rc2 I held off.
please try gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.0-rc2

[Comment 10 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-01-13 07:49:50 UTC]

closing as upstream due to lirc inclusion into the 2.6 tree

[Comment 11 Radek Podgorny 2004-03-06 18:17:47 UTC]

LIRC is now a part of the official kernel???