[LAU] Finally build 2.6.26 that works

[David Baron]

On Saturday 20 September 2008 01:43:27 Norval Watson wrote:
> "Nvidia .... always a problem, it seems. Neither nvidia's nor debian's
> legacy driver (for mx400 cards) will compile. Debian's (where I had the
> sources and could play a bit) complains about an implicit definition of
> __SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER. This is inside a #define that stuffs a mutex
> structure. I tried breaking this into a function and a #define but the
> constant is the problem, not how it was being used.
>
> Any ideas?"
>
> Fortunately, it's not too difficult to work around.
>
> Code:
> apt-get update;apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
> sed -i '/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/
> s/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/__COMPAT_SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/'
> /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h
> sed -i '/struct semaphore/ s/struct semaphore/struct compat_semaphore/'
> /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h See this page, down the bottom..
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17035&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta
>rt=60&sid=8e4f00faf126a981e2c5f98bd9db18bb Hope this helps
> Norv

Thanks! Worked like a charm. I was looking at sema_init functions and such but 
that did not work. Incorporating actual code in #defines is not my favorite 
practice :-)

Now if I could figure out what ails the IDE ...