In gentoo you would have to change the makefile directly in the additional version or whatever its called. John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> To: Speakup is a screen review system for > >> Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; sip://jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
