kernel compile gone wrong.

Sun Sep 23 13:06:54 EDT 2001

In order to use the speakup 0.10a tar ball,
You need to downgrade to kernel 2.4.6.
0.10a only works with kernels 2.2.18-2.4.6.
Greg

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:38:43PM +0100, Tim Burgess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've read the cvs documentation, but I don't have an internet connection
> active on my Linux box at this time - my access to my ISP is via a networked
> Windows NT box (OK, I know you guys are gonna hate me now - grin!).  This
> means, I would guess, that the cvs route is now closed to me until I get my
> Linux dial-up issue sorted.  I've crated a new source tree based on 2.4.9
> and patched it for ac10, so can I manually patch using the SpeakUp tar ball
> as I did for 0.09, or is this really a kiss of death?
> 
> Thanks for the help so far folks, just this last hurdle to go and I should
> be there with speech on an up-to-date kernel.  If I can get this far then I
> can progress to Internet access from this box using my ISDN card and a Squid
> proxy.  Should be fun!
> 
> cheers.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Steve Holmes
> Sent: 23 September 2001 14:00
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: RE: kernel compile gone wrong.
> 
> 
> Since you have the speakup 0.10a archive, look in there for a README.cvs
> or CVS and read that. It explains a bit more about the checkout process
> mentioned above. Like mentioned elseware, do *NOT* put the old speakup
> into the kernel source tree.  Use the fresh kernel source before running
> checkout.
> 
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, 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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