Re: [proaudio] Fixing rt-sources for splashutils compilation problem

[Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:22:42 +0200,
Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Dominique Michel wrote:
> > Le Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:46:45 +0200,
> > Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> >
> >   
> >> SteelRage wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi there to everyone
> >>>
> >>> when rt-sources-2.6.16-r29 are installed, the merge of 
> >>> splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1 fails, complaining about an error in input.h
> >>> the fix is quite easy (credits: 
> >>> http://www.helpfeeds.com/showthread.php?p=1139679):
> >>>
> >>> You can try to fix it manually by moving the line "#ifdef __KERNEL__" 
> >>> from somewhere (about line 839) right above the In-kernel definitions 
> >>> to a position before the declaration of struct input_device_id (about 
> >>> line 799) in the file usr/src/linux/include/linux/input.h from the 
> >>> kernel source tree.
> >>>
> >>> Beside Note: This seems to be fixed in 2.6.17
> >>>
> >>> Here there should be a patch:
> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=84477&action=view
> >>>
> >>> I tested it and now the merge of splashutils works.
> >>> greetz
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Paolo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> applied thx
> >>
> >> greetz
> >> Frieder
> >>
> >>     
> > I was trying that on my 2006.1 install yesterday. The problem I get is at
> > the kernel compilation failed early with this modification. So I set the
> > file in its original state and it compiled without problem. Have you try to
> > compile a kernel?
> >
> > I have not applied the patch but only modified input.h by hand. Maybe at it
> > is something more in the patch.
> >
> > I get one more problem with it. I have done a first kernel without bootsplah
> > and this one work fine. After that, I reinstalled the rt-sources with
> > fbsplash and vesafb-tng. As gensplash was not installed on the system, it
> > was necessary to modify input.h and run a make modules-prepare in the
> > kernel tree. It did it fine. But I get an error when compiling the kernel,
> > so I reversed the modification in input.h. Now, I get an error at boot time
> > with this kernel about a wrong module format or something like that. It
> > appear to early in the boot process and I don't find this error in my log
> > files.
> >
> > It is very strange because I have exactly the same kernel in my old install,
> > and it work like a charm. I want to unmerge rt-sources as well as the
> > lib/modules directory and remerge rt-sources and do a fresh kernel compil
> > with it. But I am busy with something else just now.
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Dominique
> >   
> Did you read this?
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124301
> 
> 
> 
Yes, and comment 23 say at the patch must be reversed in order to compile the
kernel.

Dominique