[gobolinux-users] ati driver recipe, first attempt...

[kenneth marken]

On Thursday 26 July 2007 01:03:00 kenneth marken wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 00:56:15 kenneth marken wrote:
> > after playing around with makerecipe and figuring out how the different
> > stuff works, i tried to write a recipe for the ati driver.
> >
> > i managed to get it to download the installer (made using loki installer
> > i suspect) and run it.
> >
> > but i noticed that Compile fails to grab the resulting files and put them
> > under /Programs/ATI as expected. instead the files are as allways put
> > under /usr/share/ati. this except for the driver files.
> >
> > also, unless im mistaken, the driver needs the linux compile environment.
> > the only way i have found to satisfy this is by having the whole kernel
> > source available in /Files/Compile/Sources. imo thats overkill.
>
> err, disregard that part. i have made it a habbit of purging
> the /Files/Compile/Sources ever so often as over time it starts to eat
> drive space. but i see now that the linux recipe bundles up the compile
> environment into a unmanaged bundle and copies them into place in said dir
> when symlinkprogram is run.
>

or maybe not. when compiling the kernel part of the driver using the unmanaged 
files, it seems that the install cant find a file called Kbuild.include that 
should reside in the scripts subdir of the compile environment. the subdir is 
compleatly missing...

> > so any suggestions?
>
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