I am new at linkux So any help is appriciated. I get this output when compiling. the dir for my source is /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-1.521. Thanks in advance.


make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP'
Making all in drivers
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers'
Making all in ledxmit_dev
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
Makefile:8: **************************************************
Makefile:8: *** Makefile trick not undone, trying to recover *
Makefile:8: **************************************************
mv Makefile.automake Makefile
make all
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
mv Makefile Makefile.automake
cp ../Makefile.kernel Makefile
make -C /usr/src/linux/ SUBDIRS=/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev modules \
KBUILD_VERBOSE=1
make: *** /usr/src/linux/: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorymake[4]: *** [ledxmit_dev.o] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers/ledxmit_dev'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP/drivers'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/myth-ledxmit/myth-ledxmit.WIP'
make: *** [all] Error 2

That is very odd, looks like you may actually be running the wrong makefile.

First of all, to compile LIRC, you should be in the lirc directory. Gunzip and untar the lirc download and then 'cd' into the directory it creates. Read the readme on what to do next, basically you need to run (./configure and then make). To install it you MUST be root, you can compile as a user, but install must be as root.

You are in the kernel directory you should NOT be there for lirc.