errors when installing speakup.

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Sun Jun 9 20:58:24 EDT 2002


Actually, Red Hat has ceased creating an /usr/src/linux symlink.
They create /usr/src/linux-2.4 as a symlink to the kernel
sources. I generally just create a symlinux called linux to this
one, but I do do it by hand.


On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
> I am not sure where Toby gets his ideas about Redhat being so 
> drastically different from his favorite distribution, but it seems you 
> did not have the source code for your kernel installed.  If you had, you 
> most assuredly would have seen a linux directory when you were in 
> /usr/src.  Unless you have a specific reason for building your kernel 
> though you can ftp to bumpy.braille.uwo.ca and go to the directory 
> /pub/speakup/disks/redhat/7.2/kernel and download the binary rpm.  Or as 
> somebody suggested you could try the 7.3 rpms.  Make sure though that if 
> you try the 7.3 kernel and you want to try alsasound, you use the 7.3 
> alsasound.  Alsa is kernel dependent!
> 
>      Jim Wantz WB0TFK
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Jeremy R Schmidt 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone, I downloaded and untared speakup 1.0.
> > When I ran ./install under redhat 7.2, I got the following.
> > I had to retype it out, so I hope I didn't miss anything.
> > Can anyone let me know if I need to fix anything, or if I should keep going?
> > P.S. I checked, and I don't have a linux directory in /usr/src, so I created
> > a simlink with the following command
> > ln -s linux-2.4.7-10 linux
> > no should I just run ./install again?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > Jeremy
> > head: /usr/src/linux/Makefile: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Patching version V
> > 
> > cp: cannot stat `speakup': NO such file or directory
> > 
> > Creating .orig files [cat: /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/patchlist-v:
> > No such file or directory
> > 
> > ] done.
> > 
> > Patching files [ppatch: checkclean: extra operand
> > 
> > patch: Try `patch --help' for more information
> > 
> > ] done.
> > 
> > Copying files [ccp: copying multiple files, but last `todo' is not a
> > directory
> > 
> > Try ` cp --help' for more information.
> > 
> > ] done.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
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