Re: Compiling module-init-tools versions after v3.0

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:08:57PM -0400, Andrew Haninger wrote:

> Hello.


Hi Andrew,


> I'm trying to upgrade one of my machines to module-init-tools-3.2-pre8
> so that I can better assist a driver developer in debugging some
> issues with the OPL3SA2 driver from ALSA.
> 
> The machine is currently running a slightly-modified Slackware 9.1
> distribution (I've updated several packages to support the 2.6 kernel
> and other upgrades since the first install). I currently have
> module-init-tools 3.0 installed but I'd like to install version
> 3.2-pre8.
> 
> The problem is that compiling module-init-tools versions after 3.0
> seem require docbook-utils (the compile fails on a docbook2man
> operation) to be installed and docbook-utils requires jade which will
> not compile. I found one jade package called jade-1.2.1 (from '98 or
> '99) which will not compile. I tried openjade, but it does not seem to
> work when compiling docbook-tools (I made a symlink from the openjade
> binary to "jade").
> 
> Is there some other package that I'm overlooking that's required to
> get docbook-utils installed?  If not, how have other people compiled
> and installed newer versions of module-init-tools?


Workaround:

Remove the

  man_MANS = $(MAN5) $(MAN8)

line in Makefile.in before running configure.


But this could be better handled in module-init-tools.


> Thanks.
> 
> -Andy

cu
Adrian

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