okay so here is what i have done. so far since the last email. i went to a totally different machine, extracted the kernel source to /usr/src create the symbolic link to linux patched the kernel using the checkout script inserted the kernel configuration file that i used for a previous configuration did make oldconfig make dep all went fine did make bzImage good make modules once again produced unresolved symbols. and refused to work got the exact same error i got on the first machine could there be something wrong with my configuration file? does anyone have a configuration file they could send me privately? i have an amd system and usually compile as much stuff as modules as possible. i also tried answering no to every question in the stuff that the oldconfig didn't have accepting of course for the speakup stuff. in adition on a different atempt i tried compiling everything which would support it, i asked for a module i am completely at my wits end and documentation appears to have little or nothing to say. At 03:40 PM 5/6/03 -0700, you wrote: >The only thing I can think of is being sure you are working with a >clean directory. Again, what I do to recompile a kernel at any time >is to rm -fr linux-2.4.20. Then untar linux-2.4.20.tar.gz into >/usr/src; this should create a top level directory of >/usr/src/linux-2.4.20. I have already, a symbolic link called linux >that points to this newly created directory. I then go into my root >user directory, /root and run the checkout script; it will update >Speakup patches into the kernel. I then copy my previously created >.config into /usr/src/linux and do a 'make oldconfig' If my >.config is current enough, I should have no prompts; it should just >fly through all the questions and come up with a message implying that >the 'make dep' and 'make bzImage' should proceed. I actually have a >script that does the make dep, make bzImage, and make modules for me >and capture the output to separate log files. I fork this into >background and come back an hour or so later and view the output files >and usually find no errors. If no errors found, I then do a make >modules_install and copy up the kernel image and System.map to the >/boot directory and run lilo to update the boot strap and go for it! >As elaborate as it sounds, it has worked well for me probably 98% of >the time. > >Sounds redundant and maybe old hat but this works for me. > >On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:20:49PM -0400, Jack Mandez wrote: >> well i am getting loads and loads of them and i am really really getting >> frustrated. >> i have been trying for a couple of days now to compile the damned thing and >> if it isn't one thing its another. >> okay so here is what i tried. >> just for the hell of it, the only thing i did was to >> patch speakup into the kernel no other modifications. >> answered the appropriate questions in the configuration file with make >> oldconfig >> make dep >> make bzImage >> make modules >> wait.wait.wait. >> get unresolved symbols all over the place, and eventually it stops >> >> with _instmod_post error1 >> >> >> any ideas what i am doing wrong? this seems streight forward but obviously >> i am not doing something right >> > >-- >Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
