[ath9k-devel] Problem compiling under Linux-libre (completely free version)

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:49 +0100, Alejandro Fdez Estevez wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to compile ath9k (from compat-wireless) under a
> linux-libre (completely free version of Linux kernel) kernel got from
> http://aligunduz.org/gNewSense/ and I'm having problems doing it. I
> have got the kernel version 2.6.27
> ( http://aligunduz.org/gNewSense/freedomshoppe/linux-image-2.6.27-libre-gnufs1.6b_2.6.27-libre-gnufs1.6b-10.00.Custom_i386.deb ).

I think you are better off asking in the linux-wireless list, as you are
not just compiling ath9k, and the compile error is not even in the ath9k
sources.

> When I do make on the compat-wireless directory, I get a lot of
> errors, all them are similar to this:
> 
> /home/ahi/Escritorio/compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4/include/linux/eeprom_93cx6.h:73: error: expected ?;?, ?,? or ?)? before ?word?

What really matters is the first error.  For instance, a missing header
or failure to parse something.  The subsequent error messages may be
misleading.

> /home/ahi/Escritorio/compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93cx6.c:29:
> include/linux/delay.h:14:23: error: asm/delay.h: No such file or
> directory

It looks like you lack a link to include/asm in the kernel tree, which
should point to the asm directory specific to your architecture, such as
asm-x86.

I checked
linux-headers-2.6.27-libre-gnufs1.6b_2.6.27-libre-gnufs1.6b-10.00.Custom_i386.deb and it has the asm link pointing to a non-existent directory "asm-i386" rather than to "asm-x86".

> include/linux/pci.h:1090: error: expected declaration specifiers or
> ?...? before ?u16?
> 
> What should I do? Should I try to compile the original version of
> linux-libre instead of using the precompiled gNewSense .deb version??

You can recreate the "asm" link:

rm /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-libre-gnufs1.6b/include/asm
ln -s asm-x86 /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-libre-gnufs1.6b/include/asm

Report the problem to the package maintainer.  If nothing helps, please
use some other kernel.  I don't think recompiling a package would make
any difference.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin