Hi, Chris Brannon wrote: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 01:48:58PM -0700 > I don't know much about David Borowski's version. Presumably it's > distributed in such a way that it can be easily built outside the > kernel, just like Speakup was years ago, before it entered the staging > tree. In that case, you should be able to build it as modules without > too much trouble. Does it come with a README? > I've tried it once, and as far as I know, it can't be build without a copy of the entire kernel source, though I may miss something, cause I don't know how you've build speakup before. > Testing the recent changes to Speakup in the staging tree is going to be > a lot harder. You not only need to pull down the whole kernel source > with git, but you also need to pull down a specific branch from a > specific repo, where new changes to the staging tree are pushed before > they hit the master branch of the kernel. What branch is that? Is it the same, as stated on linux-speakup.org? Cause when I wanted to test the unicode patches, I tried several branches, until they applied cleanly on the v4.10 branch, and then I continued to reapply the new patches on this branch. > I don't really think it's > going to be easy to build and test Speakup without rebuilding the whole > bloody kernel. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong, though. If > somebody has a process for doing this, please share with the rest of > us. Well, I have something. Since I'm using Fedora, and RedHat don't provide the staging modules, and noone anymore provides them(the guys from rpm-fusion repository did til last year), I've researched this and discovered, that it's possible to compile only certain modules from the kernel's source tree. So I did this once, and then I've excluded the kernel from updates for several months, but then I've decided that's not very good idea, so I wrote a simple script, which growed since. Actually, I shared it here last summer, but apparently I must have signed my message, so... :) Here's the script: https://github.com/zahyur/speakup-installer That said, you still need a copy of the kernel source. Also, I haven't tested my script on Arch, though I think it should work, but might need some adjustments. A key thing is the kernel version in the Makefile I've discovered that if speakup was build with a different version in mind, it won't load. I. e., different than the version you want to load it into. I also would like to learn if there's an easier way. I won't be surprised if all those gymnastics that I do are not necessary. Still, they work for me, and I hope they also could work for you. -- Best wishes, Zahari _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
