make-speakup-kernel

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

In gentoo you would have to change the makefile directly in the
additional version or whatever its called.

John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> The script would not work for gentoo as written. It relies on
> "lsb_release -si" returning either "Debian" or "Ubuntu". I have been
> making progress on making it more general but it is very difficult
> even to write a script that works from one release of debian to the
> next or from one release of ubuntu to the next. For example, when you
> download the kernel source package, it creates a subdirectory of your
> current working directory. That directory name is not the same from
> release to release, and in fact, I've found that the pattern for the
> name of that subdirectory isn't consistent from one release to the
> next. I had code to determine the subdir name based on the output from
> uname but it didn't work when I upgraded my PC. I figured out a way
> around that. But another problem is that the patch itself is very
> specific to a particular kernel version.
> 
> I see that gentoo compiles all of it's packages on your computer. All
> you would need to do is hack the code yourself before it compiles the
> kernel. You need to edit the file drivers/staging/serialio.c in the
> kernel source tree. Find a line that issues a warning saying "Unable
> to allocate port at" and comment out the return statement after that
> warning. My patch files also change that warning to say "continuing
> anyway". That makes it easier to see what is happening in the system
> logs.  My kernel build script also adds the string "+spk" to the
> kernel version to make it easier for you to tell which kernel you are
> running via the uname command.  I have no idea how to do that in
> gentoo.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/10/2016 08:21 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Will this script work for gentoo?  That distro seriously needs a
> > good script to do something like this.
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, John G Heim wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:51:32
> >> From: John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> >> To: Speakup is a screen review system for
> >> Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> >> Subject: make-speakup-kernel
> >>
> >> I posted an updated version of the script I use to build the kernel
> >> hacked to support serial hardware synths. This script does
> >> everything necessary to build a kernel for either debian or
> >> ubuntu. Even if you don't want to use the script, it might be
> >> educational for learning to build the kernel yourself. To download
> >> the script:
> >>
> >>
> >> wget http://www.iavit.org/~john/Debian/make-speakup-kernel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> -- 
> --
> John G. Heim; jheim at math.wisc.edu; sip://jheim@sip.linphone.org
> 
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