Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:42:33 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: bertrand marquis cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: need loadkeys --mktable under cygwin In-Reply-To: <40694555.7010601@yahoo.fr> Message-ID: References: <40694555.7010601@yahoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, bertrand marquis wrote: > Hello > > i.m trying to build the kernel under cygwin with a cross compiler > (host=cygwin target=i386-linux) and it seems that the kernel need the > loadkeys program to be build. I have tried to find it but it seems that > it don't exist. > Does anyone know a solution for that problem ? > > thanks Yep. It's called "porting". :-) Seriously, though, looking at the man page for "loadkeys", it doesn't seem too relevant for Cygwin. In particular, the entry for "--mktable" says: CREATE KERNEL SOURCE TABLE If the -m (or --mktable ) option is given loadkeys prints to the standard output a file that may be used as /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/defkeymap.c, specifying the default key bindings for a kernel (and does not modify the current keymap). Sounds like the kernel is not very cross-compilation friendly (i.e., it's expected to be compiled *on a Linux machine*). One solution is to create a "loadkeys" script that accepts only one option ("--mktable") and prints out pre-defined text... Alternatively, contact the authors of the code and notify them that their code doesn't build on Cygwin (and probably won't on OpenBSD, either). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/