myth@mythbox ~ $ mkdir v4l-dvb
myth@mythbox ~ $ cd v4l-dvb/
myth@mythbox ~/v4l-dvb $ hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
destination directory: v4l-dvb
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 5588 changesets with 15473 changes to 1190 files
899 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
myth@mythbox ~/v4l-dvb $ cd v4l-dvb/
myth@mythbox ~/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb $ ls
COPYING  INSTALL  Makefile  README  README.HG  README.patches  linux  mailimport  v4l  v4l2-apps  v4l_experimental
myth@mythbox ~/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb $ make
make -C /home/myth/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb/v4l
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/myth/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb/v4l'
scripts/make_makefile.pl
No version yet.
Updating/Creating .config
Preparing to compile for kernel version 2.6.20
VIDEO_PLANB: Requires at least kernel 2.6.99
Created default (all yes) .config file
./scripts/make_myconfig.pl
Unable to correctly parse Kconfig file at ./scripts/make_myconfig.pl line 43.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/myth/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb/v4l'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/myth/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb/v4l'
./scripts/make_myconfig.pl
Unable to correctly parse Kconfig file at ./scripts/make_myconfig.pl line 43.
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.myconfig', needed by `config-compat.h'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/myth/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb/v4l'
make: *** [all] Error 2
myth@mythbox ~/v4l-dvb/v4l-dvb $ uname -a
Linux mythbox 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #1 Thu May 3 14:23:48 CEST 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux