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Re: Centos 4.3/4.4 unable to compile any LIRC version (0.7.2, 0.8.0, CVS)

by Christoph Bartelmus :: Rate this Message:

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Hi!

Blammo "blammo.doh@..." wrote:
>> I ran into this problem today regarding the LIRC source not building on
>> CentOS 4.3/4.4 or Rhel4 with recent kernels.  I found that the recent
>> kernel has two new functions and macros (named class_create and
>> class_destroy) which conflict with the same lirc functions.  I updated
>> code from todays CVS tree (2006/09/27) which seems to have fixed the
>> problem.  Essentially I renamed the lirc functions to be prepended with
>> "lirc_" and updated any references.  The cvs diff output is below:

> Latest CVS from today still hasn't implemented both of these changes,
> and still fails under Centos4/x/RHEL4. Been through the archives.. any
> reason this isn't fixed?

Because if you used official kernel versions you would find that they do  
not have this problem.
You are problably using a patched kernel with backports from later  
kernel releases.
LIRC will only support official kernel releases.

Christoph

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