On Sunday 03 September 2006 10:18, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 02 September 2006 23:08, Alan Chandler wrote: > ... > > > I am now trying to build them from the latest source from the mercurial > > repository, but the best I can achieve seems to be (although it might be > > working correctly, but very slowly) a never ending set of lines like this > > after typing make. > > > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > Updating/Creating .config > > This is DEFINITELY recursive - I left it running all night and it was still > doing it in the morning. > > I did notice that v4l has a soft link oss which points to . and thought > that might be the cause and commented the creation out in the makefile, but > it wasn't that, as it still happened. > > Also to be accurate, it seems to be inside the linux headers - at least > this is how it starts:- > > ./scripts/make_myconfig.pl > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/v4l-dvb/v4l' > make[1]: Entering directory `/root/v4l-dvb/v4l' > creating symbolic links... > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/build SUBDIRS=/root/v4l-dvb/v4l modules > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686' > Updating/Creating .config > Updating/Creating .config > Updating/Creating .config > Updating/Creating .config > Updating/Creating .config > Updating/Creating .config > Updating/Creating .config OK, thanks to some help on the #linuxtv channel on irc (including some patching of the makefile) , I now have working modules. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb