Actually, Red Hat has ceased creating an /usr/src/linux symlink. They create /usr/src/linux-2.4 as a symlink to the kernel sources. I generally just create a symlinux called linux to this one, but I do do it by hand. On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > I am not sure where Toby gets his ideas about Redhat being so > drastically different from his favorite distribution, but it seems you > did not have the source code for your kernel installed. If you had, you > most assuredly would have seen a linux directory when you were in > /usr/src. Unless you have a specific reason for building your kernel > though you can ftp to bumpy.braille.uwo.ca and go to the directory > /pub/speakup/disks/redhat/7.2/kernel and download the binary rpm. Or as > somebody suggested you could try the 7.3 rpms. Make sure though that if > you try the 7.3 kernel and you want to try alsasound, you use the 7.3 > alsasound. Alsa is kernel dependent! > > Jim Wantz WB0TFK > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Jeremy R Schmidt > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, I downloaded and untared speakup 1.0. > > When I ran ./install under redhat 7.2, I got the following. > > I had to retype it out, so I hope I didn't miss anything. > > Can anyone let me know if I need to fix anything, or if I should keep going? > > P.S. I checked, and I don't have a linux directory in /usr/src, so I created > > a simlink with the following command > > ln -s linux-2.4.7-10 linux > > no should I just run ./install again? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeremy > > Jeremy > > head: /usr/src/linux/Makefile: No such file or directory > > > > Patching version V > > > > cp: cannot stat `speakup': NO such file or directory > > > > Creating .orig files [cat: /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/patchlist-v: > > No such file or directory > > > > ] done. > > > > Patching files [ppatch: checkclean: extra operand > > > > patch: Try `patch --help' for more information > > > > ] done. > > > > Copying files [ccp: copying multiple files, but last `todo' is not a > > directory > > > > Try ` cp --help' for more information. > > > > ] done. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
