On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Feb 24, 8:53pm, Mike Bernson wrote:
> > Subject: Re: building 2.4.2 (with XFS) fails
> > > ...
> > > If you have a drivers/char/defkeymap.c file, you could try
> > > deleting it & allow a fresh build to regenerate it. since
> > > your non-XFS 2.4.2 build works, this should too (there are
> > > no XFS changes around this code that I'm aware of).
> > >
> > > hope this helps.
> > >
> >
> > I have been working for the cvs source. The defkeymap.c is
> > empty and loadkey command is now where to be found.
> >-- End of excerpt from Mike Bernson
>
> yup, an empty defkeymap.c would cause this same problem I think.
> you'll need the console-tools package installed which contains
> loadkeys and /bin will probably need to be in your $PATH.
>
> The empty file is probably created by the shell redirect in..
> [drivers/char/Makefile, line 202]
> defkeymap.c: defkeymap.map
> loadkeys --mktable defkeymap.map | sed -e 's/^static *//' >
> defkeymap.c
Can someone explain why defkeymap.c from XFS CVS needs loadkeys and the
same file from stock 2.4 doesn't? Does XFS 2.4 need to regenerate this
file or something? defkeymap.c from stock 2.4 is fine, what is different
for XFS?
James Rich
james.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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