kernel compile gone wrong.

[Gregory Nowak]

Shaun's below message assumes of course
that your Linux box can access the internet.
If this is not the case, your stuck with the 0.10a archive of speakup.
Greg


On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:43:06PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> I can. you don't need to get the tar.gz archive.
> all you need is the kernel sources from ftp://ftp.kernel.org and then the
> checkout script from
> ftp://linux-speakup.org .
> then you do chmod 755 checkout to make it executeable,
> and run it.
> after of course you've unpacked the kernel source tree.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Tim Burgess wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I tried compiling the 2.4.9 kernel without the patch, so you might have
> > answered my question as well.  However, I'm confused about the "CVS"
> > reference for SpeakUp.  I've been out of the SpeakUp loop for a while (I'm
> > running 0.09 under kernel 2.2.16 at the moment).  The only SpeakUp code I
> > can find on the web/FTP site is a tar.gz.  The installation documentation
> > that I have seems to indicate that all I need to do is unpack the file into
> > /usr/src, change to the SpeakUp directory and execute ./install.  It did
> > occur to me that I might (or might not) need to do the patch as per the 0.09
> > version.
> > 
> > Dazed and confused - can you advise?
> > 
> > P.S.  Just to show that I'm still a complete newbie, how do I delete a
> > directory containing files and sub-dirs in one go?
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Frank Carmickle
> > Sent: 23 September 2001 12:18
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: kernel compile gone wrong.
> > 
> > 
> > Shaun
> > 
> > Your errors are with incompatible versions of speakup and a kernel I do
> > believe.  Looks like you tried building current cvs against 2.4.4.  I
> > don't see any reason why you would want to build 2.4.4 at this point.  I
> > suggest that you build 2.4.9ac10.  This can be accomplished by getting the
> > 2.4.9 source tarball and the ac10 patch which can be found at
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.9/patch-2.4.
> > 9-ac10.gz
> > To patch the ac patch make sure the the 2.4.9 source is in /usr/src/linux
> > then make a link to this called linux.ac This can be done by 'ln -s linux
> > linux.ac' from with in the /usr/src dir.  Then from /usr/src do 'patch -p0
> > <patch-2.4.9-ac10'  Of course this assumes that you already gunziped
> > it.  Then use the checkout script to apply cvs of speakup.
> > 
> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > 
> > > ok I'm man enough to admit it. I've got a major problem I think.
> > > or at least a minor one I can't sort out for some reason.
> > > I don't know exactly why, but I seem to have a problem with my kernel
> > > compile. I'm trying to compile kernel 2.4.4 for slackware 7.1 and I run
> > > into some trouble when it gets to the vt.o part.
> > > I've attached a copy of my image.log compressed of course to see if anyone
> > > else either has had this problem or knows of a way to figure it out.
> > 
> > --
> >      Frank Carmickle
> > phone:     412 761-9568
> > email:     frankiec at dryrose.com
> > 
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