speakup on gentoo (was Patching the Gentoo 2.6.24 kernel)

[Nick G]

Any chance that we can get Speakup back into gentoo by default?
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From: "William Hubbs" <williamh at gentoo.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:10 AM
Subject: speakup on gentoo (was Patching the Gentoo 2.6.24 kernel)


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> Hi all,
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> 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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