[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-1.0pre2 compiling error (fbdev?)

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:15:12PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > In file included from vo_fbdev.c:20:
> > /usr/include/linux/fb.h:342: error: parse error before '*' token
> > /usr/include/linux/fb.h:346: error: parse error before '}' token
> > make[1]: *** [vo_fbdev.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0pre2/libvo'
> > make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2
> 
> 
> I'd guess the headers are broken
> 
> remove the whole /usr/include/linux/ directory
> and replace it by a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux

Or better and more standard compilant solution:

add path of /usr/src/linux/include/linux (or whereever you compiled your
kernel) to the Makefile, or at least /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux

;-)

- Gábor (larta'H)