Jean-Michel POURE: > This is the first time I encouter an installation script without a > configure first. Is this usual with kernel modules? I am pretty new, maybe > I miss something.
People don't usually compile modules without the corresponding kernel source, drivers are supposed to come with the kernel, so there's little incentive to do polished compilation scripts (once a driver is polished, it's in the kernel!) it is a pain but all drivers I've compiled have been like that in some way, actually the DVB drivers seems quite good compared to others. Still, you can usually compile with just headers though after a bit of poking around. As for configure, this usually comes from the "autoconf" package whose aim is to detect platform, compiler differences which is useless for kernel modules: platform, you know it's Linux, no need to find which compiler you are using, only gcc compiles the kernel, no need to find which libxxx you're using, the kernel of course the kernel does not depend on shared libraries. So I guess there's little you could do with autoconf for modules. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.