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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx>,
Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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
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