Installing speakup on gentoo

[David Sexton]

Thanks, I've got the correct sources now gitting speakup...
What do all the 'got' messages mean when gitting speakup?
Example: got b6b3ee2c453209e6e3a99fb08716562bdb006c16

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Hubbs" <williamh at gentoo.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Installing speakup on gentoo


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> Hi David,
>
> we don't support patching speakup into 2.6.23.  However, it does work
> with 2.6.24.
>
> You will need to emerge the ~arch version of gentoo-sources, let me know
> if you don't know how to do this.
>
> Also, you will need to install git since we don't have any tarballs of
> the latest speakup available.  This can be done by emerging
> dev-util/git.
>
> Once that is done, run this command:
>
> git clone http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
>
> This will create a speakup directory in the directory where  it is run.
> Read the INSTALL document in that directory, and it will tell you how to
> install speakup.
>
> Let me know if you have questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:50:44PM -0600, David Sexton wrote:
> > Oh, sorry. I'm trying to patch 2.6.23.
> > 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 to be exact
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: Installing speakup on gentoo
> >
> >
> > > Well, you left out some important information like what kernel version
you
> > are trying to patch.  If it is 2.6.24 then you are using the wrong
> > repository because we've moved to git which you can git at:
> > >
> > > git clone http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
> > >
> > > Good luck.
> > >    Kirk
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> > > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> > > phone: (519) 661-3061
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> - --
> William Hubbs
> gentoo accessibility team lead
> williamh at gentoo.org
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