Re: speakup, how do I apply the patch?

[Janina Sajka <janina afb net>]

I can confirm that Redhat 6.1 does have problems patching Speakup-0.08. My
attempt generated four hunks which did not patch. Some of that seemed to
be associated with patching documentation, but I did not capture the error
messages, regretably.


				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina afb net


On 7 Dec 1999, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Jacob Schmude <jacobs ncinter net> writes:
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > I've downloaded speakup v0.08 and have kernel source 2.2.12-20.i386.rpm
> > (from redhat linux) installed. I executed
> > patch -p0 <speakup-0.08-patch
> 
> Hi Jacob:  There is a possibility that the redhat source package has
> made some changes to the kernel source.  The speakup patches are
> against the straight linux-2.2.x.tar.gz tar ball as found at
> ftp.kernel.org.  You might want to try that.
> 
> > |diff -urN linux-2.3.8/arch/alpha/config.in linux/arch/alpha/config.in
> > |--- linux-2.3.8/arch/alpha/config.in   Tue Jun 22 13:46:52 1999
> > |+++ linux/arch/alpha/config.in Wed Jun 30 12:40:31 1999
> 
> This is one hunk failure, where is the rest of the log?  did they all
> fail after this point or is this the only failure?  If so, it would
> probably compile fine unless you're using an alpha box.  The 2.3.8
> just indicates the version of the tree it came from.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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> 
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> e-mail: kirk braille uwo ca		University of Western Ontario
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