On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:

Jaime Oliver wrote:

Hi Iohannes,

this is Hans's reply:

FC8 is end of life, and never had libv4l, may I suggest
upgrading to a newer Fedora?

:-)

So first, do you think it is actually possible?

i really don't know.
but usually things are lot easier than one would expect...

On the other hand, I have no problem attempting to compile it, but I am not
familiar with the logic behind devel libraries, what would be the source I
would need to compile from? I had thought all this time that devel libraries
were essentially headers and the like and didn't require compilation....

yes, but there are no devel-packages for fc8, are there?

so: libXXX and libXXX-devel packages are built from "sources"
your distro might provide these sources as a source-package (e.g. libXXX.rpms) or not; but the original authors might/will provide their sources as well.
e.g. you can get libv4l from hans's site, e.g. http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/libv4l-0.5.9.tar.gz

grab this package; untar it; read the README.txt/INSTALL.txt or whatever doc applies);
then do something like
% ./configure
% make
# make install

and you should have libv4l installed into /usr/local/, effectively bypassing your package-manager.

you might need to install other packages in order for this to work, but i am not familiar with fc (and even less with fc8).
you might be totally out of luck, and it won't build for your distro/version. in this case you might have to upgrade to a newer fc.

but you might as well have luck and it works...

fgamsdr
IOhannes