[pvrusb2] driver make fail....

[Dhimiter Bozo]

has anyone else had problems building the pvrusb2 driver with the mythbuntu
9.10 kernel?

thanks,
dhimiter



On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dhimiter Bozo <dhimiter at gmail.com> wrote:

> What should I do to get this to work? I am running mythbuntu 9.10
> straight out of the box.
>
> Thanks,
> Dhimiter
>
>
> On 12/19/09, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:
> >
> > The "modules" target is a basic target of the kernel build system.  The
> > driver build process dispatches the kernel build system specifying that
> > target in order to build the driver.  It's a mechanism that has been in
> > place for basically the entire life of the 2.6 kernel series.
> >
> > It however will only work if the kernel source tree is correctly
> > installed in your system.  The fact that your build seems to have
> > dispatched *something* there would suggest that you do have it
> > installed, but then the "modules" target should have worked.  Perhaps
> > your distribution is doing something strange?  It's impractical for me
> > to test / verify multiple distributions' methods for handling kernel
> > sources.  I'm a Debian user here but for this driver I also build and
> > test against vanilla kernel tree from kernel.org.  That's about as
> > "generic" as one can get.
> >
> >   -Mike
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Dhimiter Bozo wrote:
> >
> >> hi,
> >> i just downloaded the new driver and for some reason "make" is failing.
> >> below is a snapshot of what i'm doing and the message i'm getting. Can
> >> someone help?
> >> Kernel version: 2.6.31-16-generic
> >>
> >> laptop:~/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124$ make --directory driver
> >> make: Entering directory
> >> `/home/dhimiter/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124/driver'
> >> make INSTALL_MOD_DIR=pvrusb2 -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic/
> >> M=/home/dhimiter/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124/driver
> >> CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2=m CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_24XXX=y
> >> CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_SYSFS=y CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_DVB=y
> >> CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_DEBUGIFC=y CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG=y modules
> >> make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic'
> >> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic'
> >> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> >> make: Leaving directory
> >> `/home/dhimiter/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124/driver'
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> dhimiter
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