Re: [Linux-gpib-general] almost one year since I'm unable to install linux-gpib on my gentoo

[Andreas K. H. <dil...@ge...>]

Am Dienstag, 23. September 2025, 21:44:28 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Jakub Ladman:
> Hi,
> 
> for almost whole year I am unable to install linux-gpib on my gentoo linux.
> 
> Since kernel was updated to 6.12 the packages (ebuilds) that are 
> describing to the system how the linux-gpib(-kernel) sources are to be 
> obtained and how to build them, are no longer able to build it.
> 
> For short while it was possible instead of the "stable" ebuild 
> linux-gpib-4.3.6 to use linux-gpib-9999 which is set to fetch the top of 
> the development git.
> 
> Now every attempt fails.

OK so I just tried and 9999 builds fine against 6.12 here.

What kernel and gcc versions are you using?


>>> Completed installing sci-libs/linux-gpib-modules-9999 into /var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/linux-gpib-modules-9999/image

 * Final size of build directory: 22524 KiB (21.9 MiB)
 * Final size of installed tree:   1168 KiB ( 1.1 MiB)


> 
> I am waiting for kernel update to the dream version containing the gpib 
> drivers, but for many months nothing.
> 
> There is masked package of linux 6.16.8 but anything I can do including 
> unmasking it leads not to bootable system.
> 
> I was hoping also for version 4.3.7 of the gpib suite will appear and 
> solve it, but no ...
> 
> I know you can't support every distro there exist in this universe, but 
> I honestly don't know what to do, so just complaining ...
> 
> There were years where no problem with installing linux-gpib were present.
> 
> J.
> 
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