speakup on gentoo (was Patching the Gentoo 2.6.24 kernel)

[William Hubbs]

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Hi all,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:44:35PM -0700, Keith Hinton wrote:
> I was wondering after installing git and cloning the speakup git-repository,
> how to install it into the arch version of Gentoo-sources for 2.6.24? This
> will be my very first time getting that working.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> (Note) I have never patched Speakup, (not even when it was in CVS.)

This is good timing, because I am about to open a bug on gentoo,
asking our kernel maintainer to apply the source patch to the
gentoo-sources kernel so that we can build speakup on gentoo as modules
outside the kernel tree, similar to how the alsa drivers, for example,
are currently handled.

For those who are curious, the patch to apply to the kernel to get
speakup to build this way is kernel-integration-2.6.24-source.patch.

I will post an update to this list as soon as I know whether gentoo will
be able to support building speakup this way.

Thanks,

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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh at gentoo.org
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