On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Alex,
Sorry, Axel. > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Axel Thimm <axel.th...@atrpms.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> [I'm Ccing Douglas who has taken the cape for maintaining the backports >> tree for v4l-dvb. If your reply is intended for Douglas as well, please >> Cc him as well in your replies, I don't think he's on the list] >> >> So in order to see if it makes a difference for building mythtv on RHEL5 >> (for Douglas: we have build problems against the videodev headers) I did >> package up the latest contents of the v4l-dvb backports tree (last >> changes are from July, 2nd). After some patching for taking care of the >> RHEL5 kernel (which is something between 2.6.18 and 2.6.2x, e.g. based >> on 2.6.18 with many backports), the build succeeds. Still mythtv is not >> happy with its videodev*.h headers and bails out. >> >> The backport does not build on f12-f14 and RHEL6 (kernels 2.6.35.6, >> 2.6.34.7, 2.6.32.23 and 2.6.32). >> >> For the lovers of mythtv on RHEL5, please test the package build with >> the 20100702 build of video4linux. You will find similar errors to the >> 20100401 build, but you now know that you have the latest headers. If >> you want to suggest changes to the contents of videodev*.h as before >> please Cc Douglas. >> >> Douglas, do you could advise us on how to get mythtv built against v4l >> on EL5? There are many users that have asked for it and the build >> stumbles on both the vendor supplied v4l headers as well as the >> backport's headers. >> Also do you think you could update the backports tree? I'd be happy to >> to the build testing and there are many users at ATrpms that can provide >> feedback on the resulting drivers. Thanks! > > Currently, I am not the backport maintainer and there is a new > backport tree: > git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git > > The new build system is a improvement from the last backport tree idea. > Basically, it's a .tar file from the current -git tree which is > updated regularly. > > For while, this new tree is able to compile until 2.6.31. > I just back from a long business trip, I will try to help with kernels > < 2.6.31 but > cannot provide you any date. > > Cheers > Douglas > _______________________________________________ atrpms-devel mailing list atrpms-devel@atrpms.net http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-devel
