On 13/10/05, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't really know what's causing it, my 'fix' might be completely
> the wrong way to go about it, but this is what I found, and it worked
> for me.
>
> The file /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.12-1-686/Makefile is a symlink to
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.12/Makefile (ie: the extraversion stuff is
> removed)
>
> Firstly, remove the symlink, and copy the
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.12/Makefile to
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.12-1-686/Makefile (so you can modify it
> and not break any other kernel versions you may have).
>
> Edit /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.12-1-686/Makefile, and change the
> EXTRAVERSION = line to actually include your extra version (eg:
> EXTRAVERSION = -1-686)
>
> To me, this seems the cleanest way to fix the problem, but I'm no
> kernel developer.

Thanks for the suggested fix, I'll have to try it out.


>
> btw, there are debian source packages for ivtv, which IMHO is a much
> cleaner way of going about building (although you'll still run into
> this problem)
> See http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Debian

Wow, .deb for ivtv _and_ the firmware.  Thanks for the link!

- Ben


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