[pvrusb2] driver make fail....

[Dhimiter Bozo]

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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