Re: dkms Fails to Compile lirc modules - FC6

[Nick M. <kno...@gm...>]

On 29/04/07, Scott Stevenson <sc...@we...> wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>
>      I have a MythTV box and I have a streamzap remote. I have had this
> remote working perfectly before with lirc but now it seems that the modules
> fromt he RPMs won't copile into my kernel. I'm using lirc 0.8.1-1 on Fedora
> Core 6 and I've only installed the RPMs for lirc so far (I wanted to see
> what kind of idea were out there before I went to using source code). When I
> try to use dks ms to compile the lirc drivers I get the the message below.
>
>  dkms build -m lirc -v 0.8.1-1
>
>  Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...
>
>  Building module:
>  cleaning build area....
>  make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 -C drivers
> KERNEL_LOCATION=/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/build....(bad
> exit status: 2)
>
>  Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
> (i686)
>  Consult the make.log in the build directory
>
>  Below is the bottom half or so of the log file.
>
>  make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6-i686'
>  test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
>  echo; \
>  echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
>  echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are
> missing."; \

Have you got the kernel-devel package installed (kernel headers),
which is required to build LIRC on Fedora?

Also, you don't really want to have pre-compiled LIRC binaries
installed when you manually (or with dkms) compile and install LIRC
from source.

Nick
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