make-speakup-kernel

[Jude DaShiell]

The problem about finding the new subdirectory name should be pretty 
trivial to handle it's just a matter of as adventurers would tell you 
using the right door.  Maybe this will help.
If a script runs and collects all existing subdirectory names then saves 
them to an array or data base then tells the user to download the kernel 
package and after that to run a second script that's included once they 
have downloaded the kernel source.  The second script would make a 
second data base with a different name if the first data base the first 
script ought to have made was found and that second data base would 
again collect all existing subdirectory names.  Once done a compare 
which eliminates common subdirectories in both data bases would happen 
and all you're left with is the path to the new kernel source in the 
second data base.  I hope this helps.

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, John G Heim wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:10:47
> From: John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>,
>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: Re: make-speakup-kernel
> 
> 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.
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> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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